Crossword-Solution: INSINUATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insinuation | n. | The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. |
| Insinuation | n. | 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. |
| Insinuation | n. | The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner. |
| Insinuation | n. | That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “INSINUATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| An unpleasant hint | 1 answer |
| Sly suggestion | 2 answers |
| Indirect suggestion | 2 answers |
| convertible terms | 4 answers |
| leading sense | 5 answers |
| Innuendo | 9 answers |
| ALLUSION | 13 answers |
| idea conveyed | 20 answers |
| arraignment | 25 answers |
| Implication | 28 answers |
| etiology | 35 answers |
| AETIOLOGY | 36 answers |
| Inkling | 38 answers |
| intimation | 39 answers |
| Aspersion | 48 answers |
| undertone | 57 answers |
| relic | 63 answers |
| foretoken | 63 answers |
| Hint | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INSINUATION (5)
The Saxon replied not to this politic insinuation, but, rising up, and filling his cup to the brim, he addressed Prince John in these words: “Your highness has required that I should name a Norman deserving to be remembered at our banquet.
Lapham's insinuation that he would feel himself too good for the mineral paint business; and though he was dispersed by that astounding shot at first, he was not going to let any one even hypothetically despise his paint with impunity.
When people congratulated him on his opportunity of seeing the world, and said they envied him the privilege of seeing it so well, he felt even more than the usual degree of irritation produced by an insinuation that fortune thinks so poorly of us as to give us easy terms.
She had, to a shade, the exact manner between victory and defeat: every insinuation was shed without an effort by the bright indifference of her manner.
But the female dog, that mass of carneying affectations, shines equally in either sphere; rules her rough posse of attendant swains with unwearying tact and gusto; and with her master and mistress pushes the arts of insinuation to their crowning point.
Quotes with INSINUATION (3)
Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more.
The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not only false but recalls the ever-condenscending liberal attitude towards women: "We know what women want, even if they do not.
Seduction begins with insinuation, what may happen, not what is, what you may become to the person, not today what you are.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2015).