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innuendo

Indirect, unpleasant comment; a sly hint. ‘I am sure you have brought up your child well - to the best of your ability.’ ‘I wouldn't take any books when you go to stay with Alan, if I were you. They have a habit of disappearing there.’ The second example is more blatant than the first, but the essence of an innuendo is that it must be capable of an innocent explanation. The speaker must be able to charge the listener with misinterpretation or oversensitivity, if the innuendo is challenged.



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With his characteristic quickwittedness he caught the drift of each innuendo, divined whence it came, at whom and on what ground it was aimed, and that afforded him, as it always did, a certain satisfaction.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Thers was no mistaking his innuendo, and Saxon felt her cheeks flaming.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
" There were volumes of innuendo in the way the "eventually" was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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