Usually means: Indirect implication, often of impropriety.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. innuendo: Merriam-Webster
  2. innuendo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. innuendo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. innuendo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. innuendo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Innuendo, innuendo: Wordnik
  7. innuendo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. innuendo: Wiktionary
  9. innuendo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. innuendo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. innuendo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. innuendo: Dictionary.com
  13. innuendo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. innuendo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Innuendo (Amberian Dawn), Innuendo (album), Innuendo (band), Innuendo (disambiguation), Innuendo (song), Innuendo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Innuendo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. innuendo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. innuendo: Rhymezone
  19. Innuendo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. innuendo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. innuendo: FreeDictionary.org
  22. innuendo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. innuendo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Innuendo: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. innuendo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. innuendo: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. innuendo: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. innuendo: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Innuendo (disambiguation), innuendo: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. innuendo: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.
noun:  A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.
noun:  (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
noun:  (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
verb:  (transitive, law) To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.

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