Innuendo
[,ɪnjʊ'endəʊ] or [,ɪnju'ɛndo]
Definition
(n.) An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
(n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Insinuation, remote intimation, indirect allusion, oblique hint, sly suggestion.
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Definition
n. a side-hint: an indirect reference or intimation: a part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description
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Examples
- I suppose Mary Garth admires Mr. Lydgate, said Rosamond, not without a touch of innuendo. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There were volumes of innuendo in the way the eventually was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His niece viewed his man?uvres and received his innuendoes with phlegm; apparently she did not above half comprehend to what aim they tended. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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