Innuendo vs Insinuate - What's the difference?
innuendo | insinuate |
A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication or insinuation.
(logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
(rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
* Woodward
(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
* 1995 , , p. 242
* John Locke
* Dryden
* Clarendon
To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.
In lang=en terms the difference between innuendo and insinuate
is that innuendo is a rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument while insinuate is to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.As a noun innuendo
is a derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication or insinuation.As a verb insinuate is
to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.innuendo
English
(wikipedia innuendo)Alternative forms
* (archaic) inuendoNoun
- She made a devious innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.
insinuate
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Verb
- The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
- Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
- 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.
- He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
- She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
