innuendo
n.
hint, intimation, indirect suggestion (usually derogatory)
Innuendo
A sexual innuendo is a remark or question, typically disparaging, that works obliquely by
allusion. The intention is often to insult or accuse someone in such a way that one's words, taken literally, are innocent. Innuendo can make use of, but is by no means restricted to,
double entendre (note that doubles entendres can be unintentional, while innuendo is always intentional).
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innuendo
Noun
1. an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
(synonym) insinuation
(hypernym) implication
innuendo (de)
n.
innuendo, hint, intimation, indirect suggestion (usually derogatory)
Innuendo
(n.)
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
(n.)
An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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