| 单词 | innuendo |
| 释义 | innuendo (once / 5310 pages) n Speaking in innuendo is when you say something indirectly — often of a hurtful or sexual nature. Innuendo in Latin means "to point to" or "nod to." When you refer to something indirectly, you point at it without mentioning it, making an innuendo. If your friend who recently stopped speaking to you glares at you across a room as she says to someone else, "I would never lie to someone I called a friend," she's making an innuendo. Without accusing you directly, she's saying she thinks you lied. WORD FAMILYinnuendo: innuendoes, innuendos USAGE EXAMPLESLetterman’s gimmick here was contrast: A glamorous woman with a beguiling accent pounding In-N-Out burgers as a dweeby comic peppered her with innuendo. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) With every evasion, brushoff, innuendo, contortion, rationalization, and attack, they’re working hard, in unison, to steer your attention away from Russia. Slate(Dec 19, 2016) What should really distress Americans is that the losers are trying to overturn the election results based on little more than anonymous leaks and innuendo. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) n an indirect (and usually malicious) implication Syn|Hyper insinuation implication an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection |
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