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insinuate (verb), insinuates, insinuated, insinuating
1. To hint at something unpleasant or to suggest it indirectly and gradually.
2. To introduce oneself gradually and cunningly into a position; especially, a place of confidence or favor.
3. To suggest slyly: Shirley insinuated that the boys were lying.
4. To introduce or to insert (oneself) by subtle and artful means.
5. Etymology: from Latin insinuatus, insinuare "to bring in by windings and curving, to wind one's way into"; from in-, "in" + sinuare, "to wind, to bend, to curve", from sinus, "a curve, a winding".
To indirectly hint, suggest, or imply a doubt that something will last.
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