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Definition of Insinuates
1. insinuate [v] - See also: insinuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insinuates
Literary usage of Insinuates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... or even gratify that secret pride, which, under the semblance of devotion,
insinuates itself into the human heart, was still reserved for the members of ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Tyndal insinuates that Jenkins had lost his ear on a quite different occasion.
Others boldly asserted lhat it had been left behind on the pillory. ..."
3. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1851)
"... the Foundation-stone—Christ the Corner-stone—Kfk insinuates that Luther is a
... insinuates ..."
4. Israel Among the Nations: A Study of the Jews and Antisemitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Frances Hellman (1895)
"... The Conservative Spirit of the Great Jewish Communities—The Modern Spirit
insinuates itself into them from the Outside—The Jew is De-juda- ising himself ..."
5. The Despatches and Correspondence of John, Second Earl of Buckinghamshire by John Hobart Buckinghamshire, Adelaide D'Arcy Collyer (1902)
"Upon the whole I cannot but be of opinion (as your Lordship insinuates was
suspected) this is an invention calculated to serve some purpose in Sweden, ..."
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