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What is the noun for insinuations?

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insinuation
  1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in.
  2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
  3. The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner.
  4. That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Those are padded out with a farrago of insinuation and unfounded claims that he can produce no evidence for.”
      “The underlying insinuation of his review is that it is unsuited to the opera.”
      “Over the years, these keen listeners have developed an ear for every political innuendo and insinuation.”
insinuendo
  1. insinuation containing innuendo
  2. Examples:
    1. “He draws us in with poignant songs of penetrating insinuendo, closer to our hearts than we care to admit.”
      “Despite the insinuendo in the book, Denis accompanied his wife of 19 years to her reading.”
insinuator
  1. One who insinuates.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Who knows what effect the flatteries of an insinuator like Alton Locke might have had upon the lively Katherina?”
      “Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of this review is a series of insinuations that I, the editor, am an insinuator.”
insinuations
  1. plural of insinuation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “So it now falls upon me to correct the angry and misplaced insinuations in his letter, one by one.”
      “But there are just hints and insinuations that if I stick around long enough there might be a plot later.”
      “Perhaps it was a Freudian slip but we have heard Hyde and many of us are appalled by the despotic insinuations of that remark.”
insinuators
  1. plural of insinuator
insinuendos
  1. plural of insinuendo
insinuendoes
  1. plural of insinuendo
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