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Meanings of innuendo (innuendoes) in English

Portuguese
indireta
Catalan
insinuació

A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing.

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              Usage of innuendoes in English
              1
              He was unduly sensitive of all accusations or innuendoes touching his honor.
              Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
              2
              They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
              The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
              3
              His semi-confessions and innuendoes exacerbated my feelings of distrust and repulsion.
              The Red Planet
              4
              It would be necessarily a mystic piece, abounding in fine touches, suggestions, innuendoes.
              Imaginary Portraits
              5
              Miss Darrell's innuendoes were not to be borne with any degree of patience.
              Uncle Max
              6
              Miss Batchelor's habitually nervous manner made her innuendoes doubly telling when they came.
              The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
              7
              Did she mean by her sneers and innuendoes to rouse him into action?
              The Virginians
              8
              These latter innuendoes the king crushed in the first whisper.
              The Scottish Chiefs
              9
              Didn't believe his mind flexible enough to take such inferences and innuendoes on board.
              City of lies
              10
              The ladies were especially bitter in their remarks and innuendoes.
              The Bushman — Life in a New Country
              11
              You deal in innuendoes which I cannot condescend to notice.
              St. Elmo
              12
              One grows tired of transcribing a mere succession of innuendoes.
              The Life of Froude
              13
              He spoke for some moments, handling his innuendoes with skill.
              The Sleuth of St. James's Square
              14
              She could endure the man's coarseness but not his innuendoes.
              The Stowaway Girl
              15
              Cicero's innuendoes were disagreeable enough but they might be forgotten.
              Vergil: A Biography
              16
              Lord Caversham's insolent innuendoes would be silenced if I had ten thousand a year.
              Run to Earth: A Novel
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