Crossword-Solution: INNUENDO 8 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Innuendo n. An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually
derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
Innuendo n. An averment employed in pleading, to point the
application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative
parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or
words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he
(innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.

We have 42 clues for the answer “INNUENDO”

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Sly insinuation 1 answer
Derogatory suggestion 1 answer
Element of negative campaigning 1 answer
Evil implication 1 answer
Indirect implication 1 answer
Indirect insult 1 answer
Literally, "by signaling" 1 answer
Malicious hint 1 answer
Part of many a smear campaign 1 answer
Sly hint. 1 answer
Dirty campaign technique 1 answer
Sly slur 1 answer
Slyly suggestive remark 1 answer
Smear, e.g. 1 answer
Subtle slur 1 answer
Subtle smears 1 answer
Suggestion made with a wink and a nudge 1 answer
Suggestive remark 1 answer
is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me e g 1 answer
oblique hint 1 answer
Derogatory intimation 1 answer
Derogatory implication 1 answer
Basis of a smear campaign. 1 answer
ALLUSIVE remark 1 answer
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?," e.g. 1 answer
It might be sexual 2 answers
Sly suggestion 2 answers
CAST A SLUR ON 10 answers
play on words 11 answers
AN INDIRECT SUGGESTION 11 answers
ALLUSION 13 answers
Insinuation 16 answers
Implication 28 answers
Parenthesis 28 answers
Imputation 38 answers
intimation 39 answers
Suggestion 41 answers
CUE ___ 42 answers
Aspersion 48 answers
slur 64 answers
Clue 75 answers
Hint 94 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with INNUENDO (5)

Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
They talked about the Varieties—Strether confessing to a knowledge which produced again on Pocock’s part a play of innuendo as vague as a nursery-rhyme, yet as aggressive as an elbow in his side; and they finished their drive under the protection of easy themes.
The Ambassadors Henry James 1996
You know how much your father and I have our hearts set upon an event so extremely desirable.” In Lady Ashton’s voice, a tone of impressive, and even stern, innuendo was sedulously and skilfully concealed under an appearance of the most affectionate maternal tenderness.
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996
The stranger, however, contented himself with innuendo (mere expressions of the face and other manner of things for which one could not squarely lay hands upon him) until such time as he and his sponsor had come to Main Street in the clear dawn on their way to Happy's apartment--a variable abode.
The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1996
Though I am the son-in-law of an American multimillionaire, I could not afford to make such repairs myself.” A certain small spitefulness which was his most frequent undoing made it impossible for him to resist adding the innuendo in his last sentence.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006

Quotes with INNUENDO (3)

His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands. The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex. Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasio…
Michael Finkel The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to be caused by a malfunctioning uterus — there is a very long history of critics using accusations or innuendo about women's mental health or emotional stability in order to shut down their political voices.
Sady Doyle
In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsulated the fragmented many. But as each author accomplished his task, it was in the service of the other. Ultimately, Beckett's landscapes would resound with articulate silence, and his empty spaces would collect within themselves the richness of multiple shadows--a physicist would say the negative particles--of all that exists in absence, as in the white pat…
Lois Gordon The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).