insinuate

Verb

Meaning

To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.

To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill.

To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?

To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used reflexively.

To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor by flattery or cunning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

intimate suggest hint adumbrate signal interpolate mean indicate seem mention introduce imply denote convey penetrate
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Antonyms

accept answer declare hide acclaim conceal
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Hypernyms

suggest introduce hint bring in

Phrases with the word

insinuate yourself insinuate oneself

Derivatives

insinuated insinuating

Anagrams

annuities annuitise

Examples

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. Claude Debussy

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. Walter Benjamin

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. Ayelet Waldman

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master. Carl Jung

Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit. Richard Blackmore

Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. David Hume

Close letter words and terms

insinew insinewed insinuant insinuate oneself insinuate yourself insinuating