Insinuate vs Pejorative - What's the difference?
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As a verb insinuate is (rare) to creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices. As an adjective pejorative is .
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
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pejorative Adjective
( en adjective)
Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
Synonyms
* derogatory
* dyslogistic
Antonyms
* approbative
* eulogistic
* meliorative
Noun
( en noun)
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
Synonyms
* dyslogism
* dysphemism
Antonyms
* eulogism
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