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• v  introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner
• v  give to understand
• s  calculated to please or gain favor

• Though Nasrallah urged demonstrators to remain peaceful, in the violent world of Levantine politics, insinuating that a wartime prime minister collaborated with the enemy is .
• Naturally, Sarah is shacked up there with Peters replacement, a hirsute, laid-back and slyly egomaniacal rock star named Aldous, who is played with an oddly insinuating charm .
• He may be our most insinuating movie star and, amid all his studly competitors, the one with the lowest profile.

• insinuate
• intimate
• adumbrate
• ingratiating
• ingratiatory

News & Articles

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• Joss Whedon makes a Shakespeare film in 12 days
  If man is indeed a giddy thing — as William Shakespeare suggests in Much Ado About Nothing, insinuating we are impulsive beyond all reason — then Joss Whedon may be the giddiest man of all. After all, he’s the director who decided to make a quick movie in his down time between shooting his first big-budget film and editing it; the screenwriter who dared to adapt a play from the greatest ...
  June 14, 2013 - Miami Herald
• Can You Tell the Difference Between a Cosmo Sex Tip and a Reddit Sex Tip?
  The intrepid self-proclaimed sex savants at Cosmopolitan took a subtle dig at the Internet netizens at Reddit by insinuating in a recent listicle that the "ultra-nerds" there have no idea how to handle sexy times with a woman. And, well, that went over about as well as you would expect it would when an oft-mocked women's magazine mocks a group of men with a lot of power on the Internet. But is ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• John McCain in CBS News
  The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov. Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie,said McCain senior adviser Steve...
• Frank Lampard in Telegraph.co.uk
  Lampard said: "The hardest part of this whole break-up for me is not waking up with my kids every day. It breaks my heart - do you think I'm happy? You don't know anything about me. I find it insulting that you are insinuating that I am weak and...
• Dan Gillerman in Independent
  But Gillerman said he was "shocked and deeply distressed by the hasty statement of the secretary general, insinuating that Israel has deliberately targeted the UN post", calling the assertions "premature and erroneous".