innuendo

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1. innuendo - Noun

2. innuendo - Verb

Meaning

An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.

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.

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Billboard Magazine May 4, 1974 pg 35: "Groucho Marx was the best comedian this country ever produced – Woody Allen" His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo -laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. Source: Internet

Billy the Fish plays for Fulchester United F.C. There is innuendo in the name: the Internet domain fuck. Source: Internet

Clegg was asked to revise the artwork by either censoring, cropping, changing, or removing the artwork altogether, but his changes ultimately "exacerbated the sexual innuendo" thus leading to its removal. Source: Internet

Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street (1945), was one of the few classic noirs to be officially censored: filled with erotic innuendo, it was temporarily banned in Milwaukee, Atlanta and New York State. Source: Internet

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her "many, many times" sexual innuendo. Source: Internet

Gregers hammers away at Hjalmar through innuendo and coded phrases until he realizes the truth; Gina's daughter, Hedvig, is not his child. Source: Internet

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