All 4 Uses of
insinuate
in
Bleak House
- I said no, as Mrs. Badger's insinuating tone seemed to require such an answer.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- …to pass that Mr. George does not again rise to his full height in that parlour until the time is drawing on when the bassoon and fife are expected by a British public at the theatre; and as it takes time even then for Mr. George, in his domestic character of Bluffy, to take leave of Quebec and Malta and insinuate a sponsorial shilling into the pocket of his godson with felicitations on his success in life, it is dark when Mr. George again turns his face towards Lincoln's Inn Fields.†
Chpt 25-27
- "SHALL I wish you good day for the present on the part of myself and the gentleman of the house?" he asks in an insinuating tone.†
Chpt 52-54
- William Buffy carries one of these smartnesses from the place where he dines down to the House, where the Whip for his party hands it about with his snuff-box to keep men together who want to be off, with such effect that the Speaker (who has had it privately insinuated into his own ear under the corner of his wig) cries, "Order at the bar!" three times without making an impression.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(insinuate) to imply (subtly suggest) something unpleasant