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Why, pr'ythee now, insinuator, said he, say the worst you can before Longman and Mrs. Jervis.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

I have for years, during the life of the insinuator, held such self-justification unworthy of me; now even decency demands silence. 

From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

I joined him, and, following Hyldy in a cloud of dust, the runner informed me between gasps that it was "along of burning his snout-raking for a bully-beef tin in the insinuator."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various

We are minus a chimney on this insinuator, but we are bettin’ on you and the reindeers just the same, to slip one over on us and come shinnin’ down a cocoanut-tree with your pack.

From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello

"Troutt, you're an insinuating old insinuator, and I'll——"133 Troutt laughed till his long faded beard flapped up and down and quivered with the stress of his enjoyment of his joke.

From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin