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insinuate
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    This was another strange question, but before I could answer, Miss Thomas said, "James, what are you insinuating?"  (source)
    insinuating = implying (subtly suggesting) something unpleasant
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    What are you insinuating?  (source)
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    No one showed any interest in tracking me, no one pried, no one insinuated.  (source)
    insinuated = implied (subtly suggested) something unpleasant
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    The willow is in full plumage and is no help, with its insinuating whispers.  (source)
    insinuating = implying (subtly suggesting) something unpleasant
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    You insinuate that I obliterated Piter as one obliterates a trifle.†  (source)
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    While I didn't for an instant believe some of the things my dad, in moments of meanness, had insinuated about my mother, it did appear that Mr. Bracegirdle had known my mother a good deal better than I would have thought.  (source)
    insinuated = implied (subtly suggested) something unpleasant
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    (Insinuatingly, to her daughter) Yes, I guess I see why we done commence to get so interested in Africa 'round here†  (source)
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    Sometimes it insinuates itself into my mind, little by little.†  (source)
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    You know his jokes, you know the insinuative hee-hee through his nose with which he prefaces them, you know how the gray tongue licks luxuriously over his lips at the conclusion, you know how he fawns and drools over the inert mass with the face covered with steaming towels which happens to be the local banker or the local gambling-house proprietor or the local congressman, you know how he kids the hotel chippies and tries to talk them out of something, you know how he gets in debt because of his bad hunches on the horses and bad luck with the dice, you know how he wakes up in the morning and sits on the edge of the bed with his bare feet on the cold floor and a taste like brass on the back†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    as not to awake him, the sleeping man shall dream of what has been so whispered in his ear; nay, I can assure you, those insinuating devils can do this even when we are awake, which I call impulses of the mind: for from whence, but from these insinuators, come our causeless passions, involuntary wickedness, or sinful desires?†  (source)
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    This is abhominable, which he would call abominable,—it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intelligis, domine?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She insinuateth" in older English, today we say "She insinuates."
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    Are you insinuating I'm the one with the issue?  (source)
    insinuating = implying (subtly suggesting) something unpleasant
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    She could seamlessly adapt, insinuate herself into any group, any culture or situation.†  (source)
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    Except for a short, unhappy stint at UCLA (he dropped out after a single semester, to his father's lasting dismay), two extended visits with his parents, and a winter in San Francisco (where he insinuated himself into the company of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and the painter Maynard Dixon), Ruess would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping in the dirt, cheerfully going hungry for days at a time.  (source)
    insinuated = inserted
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    He inspected the bathroom, the kitchen, the airing cupboard, and, finally, the downstairs hall, in which there was nothing to be seen but the family's bicycles, a pile of empty shopping bags, a fallen diaper, and the stray tendrils of fog that had insinuated themselves into the hall from the open door to the street.  (source)
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