| 单词 | insinuate |
| 释义 | insinuate (once / 733 pages) v Insinuate means you imply or suggest something that may or may not be true. If you say things seemed to go wrong about the time your brother took over, you insinuate that he had something to do with the decline. There's another way to insinuate. Suppose you're in line to get into a popular dance club when a celebrity appears, surrounded by a big entourage. If you strike up a conversation with one of the entourage, you may be able to insinuate that you're part of the group and go in with them. Don't feel bad — people have been doing it at least since the 1520s, when insinuate evolved from the Latin word insinuare, meaning "wind one's way into." WORD FAMILYinsinuate: insinuated, insinuates, insinuating, insinuation+/insinuating: insinuatingly/insinuation: insinuations USAGE EXAMPLESRussian state television insinuated that activists filming in Aleppo were not actually civilians. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) Cheap materials called perovskites are insinuating themselves into silicon solar cells—a first step toward ultimately usurping the reigning cell material. Science Magazine(Dec 07, 2016) Whether loud and vulgar or insinuated and masked, racial bias in the state prison system is a fact of life. New York Times(Dec 03, 2016) 1v give to understand I insinuated that I did not like his wife Syn|Hyper adumbrate, intimate hint, suggest drop a hint; intimate by a hint 2v introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table Hyper bring in, introduce bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment |
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