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单词 insinuate
释义
insinuate
verb[T]
uk
/ɪnˈsɪn.ju.eɪt/us
/ɪnˈsɪn.ju.eɪt/
tosuggest, without beingdirect, that somethingunpleasantistrue:
含沙射影地说，影射
[+ (that)]Are you insinuating(that)I'mlosingmynerve?你是在暗示我胆怯了吗？
What are you insinuating, Daniel?丹尼尔，你究竟在影射什么？
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insinuation

Phrasal verb

insinuateyourselfintosomething
(Definition ofinsinuatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

insinuate| American Dictionary

insinuate
verb[T]
us
/ɪnˈsɪn·juˌeɪt/
toexpressbut notdirectlystatesomething:
Whatexactlyare you insinuating?
[+ (that) clause]She insinuated (that) I’m gettingfat.

insinuation

noun[C/U]us
/ɪnˌsɪn·juˈeɪ·ʃən/
[C]Contrary toyourinsinuation, we are not beingunreasonable.
(Definition ofinsinuatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinsinuate

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The textual unfixity of his bodily injury insinuates its lingeringly irregular character, even though his body has ostensibly healed.
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Occasionally, other than 'purely' state-governed issues mayinsinuatethemselves into the prescribed canon formation.
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The affectation of this transgressive coloratura insinuates a common superficiality linking the traditionally alien genres of opera and techno-disco.
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Over the next twelve years, the profound sectional polarity seizing the nation wouldinsinuateitself into the basic structure of the congressional election season.
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Or could this passage owe its strange, insinuating effect to, among other factors, the multiple associations to which its tonal trajectory is open?
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This takes after the popular environmental slogan 'think globally, act locally' and insinuates the use of global trends in local environments.
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And her triumph was fully justified: her voice is as pure as a diamond and her timbre sweet, insinuating yet powerful.
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However, such an approach often incorporates a disparaging attitude towards the student's powers of discrimination, and certainly insinuates that personal preferences are trivial.
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The passage insinuates that the halls themselves are nothing less than a gleeful theatricalization of public space.
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A cotton swab is gently insinuated into the base of each sulcus, breaking all arachnoid adhesions.
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His position insinuates that even though causal loops do not happen, they could happen.
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The government insinuated that some counties preferred to keep patients on waiting lists instead of sending them to other counties.
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Music seems positively to demand interdisciplinary responses, because, for example, it insinuates itself into so much of human life.
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Putting up straw people and insinuating that these would correspond to real people's (here our) positions and then fighting with these selfcreated windmills is done several times in the article.
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Contamination is a word with so many negative associations, especially in an essay that has dwelt upon nuclear testing : in terms of historicity, it insinuates a kind of pollutant ' 'fallout.
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