Usually means: Suggests or implies indirectly subtly.
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  1. insinuates: Merriam-Webster
  2. insinuates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. insinuates: Vocabulary.com
  4. insinuates: Wordnik
  5. insinuates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. insinuates: Wiktionary
  7. insinuates: Dictionary.com
  8. insinuates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. insinuates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. insinuates: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (insinuate)

verb:  To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
verb:  (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
verb:  (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
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