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insinuate
English
Etymology
From Latin ?nsinu? (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?n?s?njue?t/
Verb
insinuate (third-person singular simple present insinuates, present participle insinuating, simple past and past participle insinuated)
- To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
- She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
- (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
- 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
- Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
- 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
- (figuratively, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
- 1995, Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, p. 242
- Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
- All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
- Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
- He […] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
- he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn
- 1995, Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, p. 242
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:allude
Related terms
- insinuation
- insinuator
- sinuous
Translations
Further reading
- insinuate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- insinuate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- annuities
Italian
Verb
insinuate
- second-person plural present indicative of insinuare
- second-person plural imperative of insinuare
- feminine plural of insinuato
Latin
Verb
?nsinu?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of ?nsinu?
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admitted
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?m?t?d/
- Hyphenation: ad?mit?ted
Verb
admitted
- simple past tense and past participle of admit
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