Insinuations
[ɪnsɪnjʊ'eɪʃ(ə)n]
Examples
- You reproach me with my origin,' said Bradley Headstone; 'you cast insinuations at my bringing-up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Take away his gun,' cried Mr. Pickwick from the barrow, horror-stricken at the long man's dark insinuations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This fact warned Archer to go warily; but the insinuations about Beaufort made him reckless. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Odious insinuations both! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No, Mr. General, not the worst of your insinuations shall ever make me think the less of myself! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Wretch,' said Mr. Nupkins, 'we scorn your base insinuations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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