insinuate
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Insinuate and intone up to the very edge of sense-making, and then at the last moment cut away before any real definitive conclusion or lack of conclusion can be inferred.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
Insinuate, in-sin′ū-āt, v.t. to introduce gently or artfully: to hint, esp. a fault: to work into favour.—v.i. to creep or flow in: to enter gently: to obtain access by flattery or stealth.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Then, again, of Salisbury— "Insinuate myself to become privy to my Lord of Salisbury's estate."
From Bacon by Morley, John
Insinuate an atom or corpuscle of hydrogen or carbon at the wrong point in the ranks, and the trick is a failure.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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