Usually means: Suggesting something indirectly or subtly.
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  1. insinuation: Merriam-Webster
  2. insinuation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insinuation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insinuation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insinuation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insinuation, insinuation: Wordnik
  7. insinuation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insinuation: Wiktionary
  9. insinuation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insinuation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. insinuation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Insinuation, insinuation: Dictionary.com
  13. insinuation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Insinuation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Insinuation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. insinuation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. insinuation: Rhymezone
  18. Insinuation, insinuation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. insinuation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. insinuation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. insinuation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. insinuation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. insinuation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. insinuation: Legal dictionary

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  1. insinuation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (insinuation)

noun:  The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
noun:  The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
noun:  The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
noun:  That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion

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