Usually means: Suggesting indirectly, often in sly manner.
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  1. insinuating: Merriam-Webster
  2. insinuating: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. insinuating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. insinuating: Vocabulary.com
  5. Insinuating, insinuating: Wordnik
  6. insinuating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. insinuating: Wiktionary
  8. insinuating: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Insinuating, insinuating: Dictionary.com
  10. insinuating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Insinuating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. insinuating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Insinuating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. insinuating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. insinuating: FreeDictionary.org
  16. insinuating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. insinuating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insinuating: Legal dictionary

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  1. insinuating: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (insinuate)

verb:  To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
verb:  (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
verb:  (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
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