Insinuation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSINUATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of insinuating
• an unpleasant hint or suggestion of something bad
• The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
• The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
• The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
• That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by insinuations.
• an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
• the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of insinuating

Words related to INSINUATION

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Words that contain INSINUATION

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How to use INSINUATION in a sentence

• Every man who was a little more prominent than his neighbour seemed a target for every kind of insinuation and criticism.
• I have shown how unjust was the insinuation that Hutton denied a beginning to the world.
• That the insinuation shocked none of those around me was evident.
• Upon this part of the subject, the proofs which contradict such an insinuation are innumerable.
• One of the lithe hounds, who seems to have steel springs in his hind legs, looks contemptuously at the American stranger, and turns up his long nose like a moral insinuation.
• I feigned to be dense, but Harold smiled as though the insinuation was not only known, but also agreeable to him.
• Let none suppose that any insinuation to that effect is intended against Mr.
• In the individual case I simply protest against the insinuation.
• Madame had known her man well when she threw out that artful insinuation.
• Now you are perfectly at liberty to bestow whatever epithets you wish upon your new corps, provided these epithets contain no unfair insinuation against existing corps.
• He is, besides, both frank and handsome, with a good deal of dash and insinuation in his address and manner, and, besides, a good property, I am told.
• It was a blunder, also, to throw out that insinuation about the ten thousand dollars.
• Duval had unintentionally insulted one of them, hence the insinuation against him in the order.
• The foul insinuation that Sanderson had just made about Anna rankled in his mind.
• Even yet she hardly comprehended the full extent of his insinuation.
• Suit your own carriage thereto, by which insinuation you will make their converse more free and open.
• Mary, however, indignantly repelled this insinuation.
• Such a sweeping condemnation would include himself, and he resented the insinuation.
• This insinuation was levelled at the duke of Marlborough, who made a long speech in his own vindication.
• Lord North replied to Fox, and expressed great indignation at the insinuation, that ministers were in the pay of France.
• We are up against a hard crowd, and we want to meet them a little over halfway, even on a hint or insinuation.
• But when it is intimated that all this is necessarily and inevitably so, I repel the insinuation.
• The animal body is directly affected by the insinuation of this agent into the substance of the nerves.
• There was never any ground for even an insinuation of this kind.
• Besides, the malicious insinuation has been completely disproved by Mr.
• Even Braxton Wyatt did not dare to lift his voice to that effect again, but, with sly insinuation, he spoke of savages herding with savages, and of what might happen some day.
• She would have repelled the insinuation that she was courting favor or that hopes of the future governorship for Richard had anything to do with her changed demeanor.
• The skipper made no reply to this infernal insinuation.
• Inwardly raging as he was, hot, confused, unhorsed, still a strange, fingering insinuation of something agreeable had begun to waken in him.
• He can only regard it as a puerile thing, and an insinuation that he shall die.
• From the melancholy story of Eliza Wharton let the American fair learn to reject with disdain every insinuation derogatory to their true dignity and honor.
• This, I am sure, is not loose railing, or mean insinuation, according to their low and degenerate fashion, when they make attacks on the measures of their adversaries.
• Lane had meant to get under her skin with a few just words of scorn, and he had imagined his insinuation as to the change in her had hurt her feelings.
• A little, appreciative grin was all the attention the insinuation of pedantry received.
• Davis resented the insinuation, with fervent protestations of affection for the Union of the States.

Similar words containing SINUA without suffix tion and without prefix in

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