noun an oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
2. innuendo ·noun an averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words;
as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.