Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making insinuations; hinting; insinuating.
- Stealing into the affections; ingratiating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor.
- adjective Using insinuations; giving hints; insinuating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
insinuate ;insinuating
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Examples
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It was Mr Mahmood Farooqui who made suggestive (I would hold back the word 'insinuative' for now) comments about the enormous richness of Urdu belittling (read his texts carefully and you would realize what he is trying to do) Punjabi.
Kafila 2009
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Mr. Powell, playing double-stroke rolls on his toms, was insinuative; Mr. Marsalis, starting out with a fusillade on his snare, was aggressive.
Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Mr. Powell, playing double-stroke rolls on his toms, was insinuative; Mr. Marsalis, starting out with a fusillade on his snare, was aggressive.
Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Quite frankly, I am appalled by the disrespectful, insinuative and highly partisan nature of many of these comments.
Q. and A. With Taghreed El-Khodary in Gaza - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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What exactly was “false” rather than just imbalanced, selective, insinuative, and otherwise objectionable?
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And lastly, for imaginative or insinuative reason, which is the subject of rhetoric, we think it best to refer it to the arts of reason.
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Finding nothing insinuative, he moved on to the storeroom.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Which was a bit insinuative, but it worked, you know.
Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America 1996
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I tried to thrust from my mind the memory of that insinuative, incipient sensation, that rudimentary physiological hint, that primitive, inchoate anticipation of what it might be possible for a woman to feel.
Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983
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It was deuced curt, it seemed to him, and veiled a sort of suggested laughter, if there was anything insinuative in polite phrases.
Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921
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