insinuative
Example Sentences
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Still, there was a strong sense of unity to the work, and a prevailing mood of insinuative bombast.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015
Another charge made by Hochhuth is that through certain insinuative speeches, Churchill manipulated Hitler into initiating a few scattered bombing raids on British towns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
He strikes just two vocal chords: one, the brawling ranter, the other the insinuative little-boy whiner.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is always at your elbow—a mercenary Mephistopheles—suggesting drives or sails, and recommending certain yachts, boats, and carriages with insinuative irresistibleness.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
