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Insinuate vs Maneuver - What's the difference?

insinuate | maneuver |

As verbs the difference between insinuate and maneuver

is that insinuate is (rare) to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices while maneuver is to move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.

As a noun maneuver is

a movement, often one performed with difficulty.

insinuate

English

Verb

  • (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
  • * Woodward
    • The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.
  • (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
  • * 1995 , , p. 242
    • 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.
  • * John Locke
    • 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.
  • * Dryden
    • Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
  • * Clarendon
    • He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
  • To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.
    • She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

    Synonyms

    * (Make a way for or introduce something by subtle, crafty or artful means. ): imply

    Related terms

    * insinuation * insinuator

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    maneuver

    English

    Alternative forms

    * manoeuvre (Commonwealth) * maneuvre, manoeuver (nonstandard) *

    Noun

  • (en noun) (American spelling)
  • A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
    • Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver .
  • (often, in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
    • The army was on maneuvers .
    Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
  • An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.

    • Verb

    (en-verb) (American spelling)
  • To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
  • (figurative) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
  • (figurative) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme
  • :: ''The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts