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