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What is an innuendo?

What is an innuendo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
  2. (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
  3. (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
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Guilt by innuendo and tch-tch-ing at the supposed loose morals of the girl in question just might get the sarge off the hook.
Nor was there any good evidence for it, though plenty was manufactured by innuendo.
It's all innuendo and unsubstantiated intelligence given by people who clearly have an axe to grind.
But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America.
Naturally, this provoked a flood of filth and crude innuendo, which is hardly suitable material for a family site.
Posters for a brand of alcohol were criticised by the advertising watchdog today for containing sexual innuendo.

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