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Synonyms for insinuate

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Synonyms for insinuate

to introduce gradually and slyly

to convey an idea by indirect, subtle means

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Synonyms for insinuate

introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner

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give to understand

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Rosenthal says of Gunn's Selected Poems: "Introspection rises to a sort of surrealistic, terrified pitch reminiscent of Sylvia Plath" and creates "an insinuatingly familiar and infinitely alien" tonal effect as if the speaker were "a reticent friend ...
In Conrad's Trojan Horse, Tom Henthorne borrows Bakhtin's concept of "intentional hybridity" to analyze Conrad's "postcolonial aesthetics" as an aesthetics that seeks to criticize imperialism implicitly and insinuatingly under the guise of expressing the very same ideology through the employment of "misdirection" and "subterfuge." His reading of "Youth" presents Marlow as exerting an alternative perspective to that of the frame-narrator, whose tribute to the empire and imperialism serves as the outer cloak to disguise the former's critique of imperialist ideology as well as his awareness of its true nature.
Kotarbinski claimed that methodology is often and can be understood insinuatingly. It is a study of reasoning building rules.
Insinuatingly low-key, minimalist Icelandic seriocomedy "Either Way" gets a slightly broader yet perhaps even more satisfying U.S.
Making as a basis their own experiences, they then move on to discount the relevance of the Dalit struggles, through insinuatingly suggesting that Dalits are unduly passionate in their pursuit for equal rights and justice, upseting "peace" and 'unity.
Also, in case B or C were very interested in A, I would let them know, gently and insinuatingly, of A's disclosures.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insinuatingly gave a message to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to withdraw.
"Go home" whispered another voice insinuatingly and something pushed against Luzhin's shoulder.
Correspondingly, the insinuatingly tracking, slow-motion point-of-view shots as Jake looks toward Tommy at the Copacabana--including one in which Tommy, significantly, kisses Vickie--could be seen to express the "ambivalent attitude" toward the father that Freud declares "may even" be "attributed entirely" to the negative Oedipus complex (1991d: 372).
By an earlier husband, Grandma had a son who, in his forties, is still not married, and Rudi had alienated him by querying him insinuatingly about this.
The NTRI is an insinuatingly strategic positioning device because it simply repeats back (and thus casually emphasizes) the potentially problematic part of the previous speaker's turn (Schegloff et al., 1977).
Freneuse senses that he is open to Ethal's perusal and scrutiny: "[c]et Anglais lit a livre ouvert dans mes deplorables instincts," he thinks just after Ethal has commented very insinuatingly on the good looks of a young man (152).