(~s, insinuating, ~d)
1.
If you say that someone ~s that something bad is the case, you mean that they say it in an indirect way.
The libel claim followed an article which ~d that the President was lying...
= imply
VERB: V that disapproval
insinuation (insinuations)
He speaks with rage of insinuations that there’s a ‘gay mafia’ in Hollywood...
N-VAR
2.
If you say that someone ~s themselves into a particular situation, you mean that they manage very cleverly, and perhaps dishonestly, to get into that situation.
He gradually ~d himself into her life.
= worm
VERB: V pron-refl into n, also V n prep disapproval