Synonyms for innuendo
ˌɪn yuˈɛn doʊin·nu·en·do

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1. innuendo

   A suggestion (Latin sub, under, and gero, bring) brings something before the mind less directly than by formal or explicit statement, as by a partial statement, an incidental allusion, an illustration, a question, or the like. Suggestion is often used of an unobtrusive statement of one's views or wishes to another, leaving consideration and any consequent action entirely to his judgment, and is hence, in many cases, the most respectful way in which one can convey his views to a superior or a stranger. A suggestion may be given unintentionally, and even unconsciously, as when we say an author has "a suggestive style." An intimation is a suggestion in brief utterance, or sometimes by significant act, gesture, or token, of one's meaning or wishes; in the latter case it is often the act of a superior; as, God in his providence gives us intimations of his will. A hint is still more limited in expression, and is always covert, but frequently with good intent; as, to give one a hint of danger or of opportunity. Insinuation and innuendo are used in the bad sense; an insinuation is a covert or partly veiled injurious utterance, sometimes to the very person attacked; an innuendo is commonly secret as well as sly, as if pointing one out by a significant nod (Latin in, in, to, and nuo, nod).

   Synonyms:
   hint, implication, insinuation, intimation, suggestion

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1. insinuation, innuendonoun

   an indirect (and usually malicious) implication

   Synonyms:
   ingratiation, insinuation

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1. • Implication

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1. innuendonoun

   Synonyms:
   insinuation, remote intimation, indirect allusion, oblique hint, sly suggestion

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1. List of paraphrases for "innuendo":

   insinuation, slur, implication

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   The public interest would be served by the FBI providing the facts, rather than allowing Republicans to stoke innuendo and falsehoods 11 days away from a presidential election.

2. Bill Clinton:

   This is one of these innuendo insinuation charges that the Sanders campaign is engaging in.

3. Mark Corallo:

   I understand David Vitter's desire to score political points against Bill Clinton. I was in the Bill Clinton opposition business long before anyone had heard of David Vitter. And by all means it should be open season on Bill Clinton, but we should be careful to base our political attacks on facts, not innuendo dressed up as a Congressional inquiry. We shouldn't treat everyone who ever associated with the Clinton's as collateral damage.

4. Maya Angelou:

   A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

5. J. William Fulbright:

   When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.