innuendo
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8.0
- noun
- /ˌɪnjuˈɛndoʊ/
- NSFW
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insinuación
- Your constant innuendos are intolerable.
- sexual innuendo
- rumor and innuendo
He just likes to make innuendos and he's very charming.
- He just likes to make innuendos and he's very charming.
- We are informed by innuendo and incomplete ideas.
- Twitter enables gossip, reputation, savaging and innuendo unconstrained.
- They may write sort of posts full of innuendo, passive aggressive posts, that kind of thing.
- Linus and Sally have constant sexual innuendo.
- So you get all these wonderful innuendos, right?
- Why is he talking about Election Day like it's a weird sex innuendo?
- So people have to come up with crazy words to replace sexual words, sexual innuendos.
- And then I came across a network that there was a lot of Internet, Internet innuendo about in Omaha, out of Omaha.
- So at a certain point, I, I got taken off of a show for something I tweeted that had like innuendo in it.
- He engages in so much innuendo trying to raise the specter that she's working at the behest of the CIA.
- Again, it's something that's shrouded in rumour and innuendo and secrecy and better journalists than me have, I think, tried to get to the bottom of it.
- You know, there's a lot of sexual innuendo at the nudist vacation hotel, and so I'm just painting the picture in a descriptive way.
- It was quite sexually innuendos and he wasn't a very nice person.
- And at the time, Jessica was working and we would just have a quick innuendo and then be done with it.
Examples
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You have a positive gift for innuendo.
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Mrs. Cramer, I don't see your point, but I sense some innuendo.
Fiction book (1991) -
We are informed by innuendo and incomplete ideas.
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"I was too stunned by the innuendo in his voice to respond."
Fiction book (2000) -
For example, why is so much of language use veiled or indirect or done via innuendo, rather than people blurting out exactly what they mean?
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I have lived with cold silence, rumor, innuendo, and practical mutiny as people jockey for position.
Blog text (2) -
Cut down on gossip, innuendo, and rumors through healthy communication, acceptance of other viewpoints, and collective acceptance of decisions.
Academic text (2004) -
The timid confrontation of the bank manager may work, but gossip and innuendo are long-term and do not build employee self-esteem.
Academic text (1994) -
Mr. Keane, there seems to be a lot of innuendo and contradictory testimony about the genesis of the big-eyed waifs.
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Her comments were filled with innuendo, suggesting more than she actually said.
Synonyms
18
7.2
A quiet suggestion that someone did something wrong
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7.7
A small hint that something is true or will happen
Antonyms
How Insinuating
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word innuendo comes from Latin parts in- 'toward' and nuere 'to nod', as in the English word 'nod', so it originally meant 'by nodding', a quiet way to give a hint. That's why an innuendo is an indirect, often suggestive remark rather than a direct statement.