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INSINUATE

[in-sin-yoo-eyt]

-verb

1. to suggest or hint shyly.

2. to instill or infuse subtly or artfully as into the mind.

3. to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods.

Origin

1526 (implied in insinsuation), from L. insinuatus, pp. of insinuare

"bring in by windings and curvings, wind one's way into," from in- "in" = sinuare

"to wind, bend, curve," from sinus "a curve, winding." Sense of "to introduce tortuously or indirectly" is from 1647.