insinuantadj.
/ɪnˈsɪnjuːənt/ rare.
1. = insinuating adj. 2; wheedling, ingratiating.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [adjective]
fikingc1230
papelarda1500
gnathonical1540
clawing1574
pickthank1575
slavering1575
claw-back1577
courting1580
fawning1585
adulatory1587
insinuating1592
insinuative1592
scraping1599
adulatorious1612
men-pleasing1615
pickthanking1621
sycophantical1632
gnathonic1637
insinuanta1639
sycophantizing1640
ingratiating1642
led1672
sycophanting1674
sycophantly1680
sycophanta1684
sycophantica1698
pickthankly1702
assiduous1725
foot-licking1786
tuft-hunting1789
sycophantish1821
favour-currying1831
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
creepy-crawly1890
slauming1904
toadyish1909
ass-licking1940
ass-kissing1942
brown-nosing1946
arse-licking1950
sucky1991
a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 80 Plausible, insinuant and fortunate men.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 258 Novelty is insinuant, and if it be happy, it sets a double value upon what is good.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 501 The train Of those insinuant tempters.
2. That steals its way in.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective] > surreptitiously or subtly
insinuating1615
instealing1844
insinuant1877
1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 147 The stony seed Feels the insinuant dew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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