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innuendo

noun as in suggestion

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Example Sentences

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said by focusing on Mr Kaba’s ethnicity, they had created "rumour and innuendo” which could “embolden those who work against the public".

From BBC

We meet Lina at the three-month and 17-day mark of not being touched at all by her husband, which has driven her to take matters into her own hands — innuendo intended.

From Salon

Like all good dad jokes, the sexual innuendo is implied in the faintest of ways.

From Salon

The writing is punctuated by testy asides and innuendos about Villanueva foes, whom the report accuses of everything from extramarital affairs to ethical violations to new crimes.

His dismissed the prosecution’s case as nothing more than “theories, hypotheses, innuendoes, assumptions, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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