insinuate Add to list Share. Insinuate means you imply or suggest something that may or may not be true. If you say things seemed to go wrong about the time your brother took over, you insinuate that he had something to do with the decline. There's another way to insinuate.

What are you insinuating means?

1a : to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply I resent what you're insinuating. b : to introduce (something, such as an idea) gradually or in a subtle, indirect, or covert way insinuate doubts into a trusting mind. 2 : to introduce (someone, such as oneself) by stealthy, smooth, or artful means.

How do you use insinuating in a sentence?

Insinuating sentence example

Hitherto Catherine had been merely the resigned and neglected wife of Henry II., and though eloquent, insinuating and ambitious, she had been inactive.