insinuate
verb (used with object)
to suggest or hint slyly.
was insinuating
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past progressiveof insinuate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Almost as if he was insinuating that it wasn’t just the rig that belonged to LLG, but the people it harbored, the work of their hands.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
The co-worker, he said, was insinuating that Brown was “soft and weak.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2018
In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, co-author of the bill, cried that Ike was "insinuating that the Senate was subverted."
From Time Magazine Archive
The talk was insinuating on the part of the former, while the latter slipped evasively from every proposition, as if not able to consider it on account of a curious obtuseness of perception.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
