insinuating

[in-sin-yoo-ey-ting]

adjective

1. tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive.

   an insinuating letter.

2. gaining favor or winning confidence by artful means.

   an insinuating manner.

Other Word Forms

• insinuatingly adverb
• half-insinuating adjective
• half-insinuatingly adverb
• preinsinuatingly adverb
• uninsinuating adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of insinuating¹

First recorded in 1585–95; insinuat(e) + -ing ²

Example Sentences

In fact the White House defended it, insinuating the journalist deserved it for being “unprofessional.”

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Musk replied on social media, calling him “Sean Dummy” and insinuating he has a “2 digit IQ.”

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Some major news outlets initially wrote off the emerging epidemic as a “gay plague,” insinuating that other Americans didn’t need to worry about it.

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In remarks to the press after he toured “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention center in Florida, the president weaponized Mamdani’s birth in Uganda by falsely insinuating he is not a naturalized American citizen.

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Team leaders referred to Gazans as "zombie hordes", the former contractor said, "insinuating that these people have no value."

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