See insinuate on Wiktionary
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"text": "And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow?",
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"text": "1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England\nWater will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks"
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"text": "[…] he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn—[…]",
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"text": "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.",
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"Terms with Tagalog translations"
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"4": "",
"5": "to push in, creep in, steal in"
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"name": "uder"
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"text": "She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.",
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"ref": "1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:",
"text": "And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:",
"text": "‘You are quite wrong, my love, in your guess at my meaning. What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana’s little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy.’",
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}
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"word": "allude"
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"text": "1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England\nWater will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks"
}
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"ref": "1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1693, John Dryden, “[The Dedication]”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.",
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"ref": "1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:",
"text": "He[…] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.",
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},
{
"ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 306:",
"text": "[…] he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn—[…]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Terry Pratchett, Maskerade, page 242:",
"text": "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.",
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}
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"To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means."
],
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[
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"access"
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"(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means."
],
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}
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"US"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "lammaḥa",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "لَمَّحَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔalmaḥa",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "أَلْمَحَ"
},
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ʔašāra",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "أَشَارَ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namekvam",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "намеквам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "naznačit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "naznačovat"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinueren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "vihjata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "andeuten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "unterstellen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "yponoó",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "υπονοώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypainíssomai",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "υπαινίσσομαι"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insynuować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "namekátʹ",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "намека́ть"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "insinuera"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "iparinig"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "magparinig"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "hint at (something)",
"word": "paringgan"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "تسحّب"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "تسلل"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prokradvam se",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "прокрадвам се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "tihkua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "hivuttautua"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "creep or wind into, to enter gently",
"word": "insinuare"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "indass",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "اِنْدَسّ"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vetřít se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vlichotit se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "protlačit se"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "mielistellä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "insinuer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "sich einschmeicheln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "sich einschleichen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "przypochlebiać się"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaískivatʹ péred",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "заи́скивать пе́ред"
},
{
"alt": "чью-нибу́дь",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"sense": "ingratiate oneself",
"word": "сниска́ть ми́лость"
}
],
"word": "insinuate"
}
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"second-person plural present indicative"
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}
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