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Insinuating   /ɪnsˈɪnjueɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Insinuate  v. t.  (past & past part. insinuated; pres. part. insinuating)  
1.
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement. "The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables."
2.
To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill. "All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment." "Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts."
3.
To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
4.
To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; used reflexively. "He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham."
Synonyms: To instill; hint; suggest; intimate.



Insinuate  v. i.  
1.
To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
2.
To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning. "He would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh." "To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs."



adjective
Insinuating  adj.  Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. "His address was courteous, and even insinuating."






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"Insinuating" Quotes from Famous Books



... youngest child of Charles L, born July 6th, 16—, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the Duke of York." He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, 1660, and was buried ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... Betty," said Madame Marneffe, in an insinuating voice, "are you capable of devoted friendship, put to any test? Shall we henceforth be sisters? Will you swear to me never to have a secret from me any more than I from you—to act as my spy, as I will ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... Francois I the Cour des Miracles had a physiognomy much more strongly marked than under Louis XIV. The narrow and miry streets, insinuating themselves between the hovels in wood, halting and crippled, turned and returned upon themselves, to end finally in a repulsive sewer. Neither air nor sunshine ever penetrated into these infamous alleys, from which escaped, at all seasons of the year, nauseating ...
— Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 • William Walton

... smooth, deceiue, and cogge, Ducke with French nods, and Apish curtesie, I must be held a rancorous Enemy. Cannot a plaine man liue, and thinke no harme, But thus his simple truth must be abus'd, With silken, slye, insinuating Iackes? Grey. To who in all this presence speaks your Grace? Rich. To thee, that hast nor Honesty, nor Grace: When haue I iniur'd thee? When done thee wrong? Or thee? or thee? or any of your Faction? A plague vpon you all. His Royall Grace (Whom God preserue better then you would wish) ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... blonde, with eyebrows nearly white, and pale blue eyes, almost round; her speech honeyed, her look hypocritical, her manners insinuating and insidious. ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue


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