Insinuate means you imply or suggest something that may or may not be true. If you say things seemed to go wrong about the time your brother took over, you insinuate that he had something to do with the decline.
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
Verb
give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
Verb
introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner; "He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table"
v. t.
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or
narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
v. t.
To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill.
v. t.
To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used
derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?
v. t.
To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to
introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used
reflexively.
v. i.
To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly,
or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
v. i.
To ingratiate one's self; to obtain access or favor
by flattery or cunning.
Insinuate
The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.2.
All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.3.
He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
Insinuate
He would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs.
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
To creep, wind, or flow in; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
Usage Examples
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesBeauty 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.
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.