"insinuendo" meaning in English

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          "text": "Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.",
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          "text": "It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.",
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          "ref": "1964, Milton Rokeach, The three Christs of Ypsilanti: a psychological study, Knopf, page 131:",
          "text": "\"I don't have it,\" says Leon. \"It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo.\"",
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