0 past simple and past participle of insinuate
1 to suggest, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true:
[ + (that) ] Are you insinuating (that) I'm losing my nerve?
What are you insinuating, Daniel?
A cotton swab is gently insinuated into the base of each sulcus, breaking all arachnoid adhesions.
The government insinuated that some counties preferred to keep patients on waiting lists instead of sending them to other counties.
In other cases, insinuated meanings lurked uncertainly in the shadows of open ' ' ones.
He shows how the idioms of politeness and civility insinuated themselves into the language of plaintiffs, defendants, and others as they presented their cases in courts.
Insinuated the brat wasn't telling the truth.
The refusal to represent confronts the system with its own language and enacts a critique that is not tied to those who are insinuated in it.
He insinuated that we are bringing in an old age pension scheme, whereby the old people will have los.
He has insinuated that, somehow, all this depends upon the removal of the right to strike.
