insinuation
Example Sentences
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Insinuation, not graphic detail, gives her books an edge of true terror.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2018
Insinuation, montage, and unprovable “facts” are washing millions of brains of their critical faculties.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2015
Had Mr Temples Friends appeard to be very intimate with him here, the like Insinuation might have been thrown out, & with a similar View, to draw an odious Suspicion on them.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo
Insinuation seems to be not less necessary when the opponent's action has pre-possest the minds of the judges, or when they have been fatigued by the tediousness of the pleading.
From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville
I assure you, prince, I was not guilty of the least—" "Insinuation?
From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.
Vocabulary lists containing insinuation
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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The Kite Runner
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