Insinuación in english
Innuendo
pronunciation: ɪnjuendoʊ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ɪnjuendoʊ part of speech: noun
In gestures
insinuación = suggestion ; innuendo ; intimation ; overtone ; insinuation.
Example: The suggestion that integration can be achieved via a reasoning engine seems fundamentally misconceived.Example: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.Example: These currents are better understood as intimations of postmodern populism.Example: Those materials they describe as ephemera must be collected and despite the derogatory overtones of the descriptor, carefully organized.Example: I keep telling her I'm not prepared to tolerate her risible, her tendentious, her rococo insinuations and garbled inventions.more:
» dejar caer insinuaciones = throw + hints ; make + innuendos ; drop + a hint ; make + advances at .
Example: Now it is the turn of Libya to throw hints that it too needs to be mollycoddled. Example: He repeatedly comments on my appearance, makes sexual innuendoes, and touches me. Example: Presidents who manage by dropping hints sometimes devise little tests to see if their executives can read their minds. Example: I say this because my married boss keeps making advances at me, which I have been fighting off but he won't give up.» hacer insinuaciones = make + innuendos ; throw + hints ; drop + a hint ; make + advances at .
Example: He repeatedly comments on my appearance, makes sexual innuendoes, and touches me. Example: Now it is the turn of Libya to throw hints that it too needs to be mollycoddled. Example: Presidents who manage by dropping hints sometimes devise little tests to see if their executives can read their minds. Example: I say this because my married boss keeps making advances at me, which I have been fighting off but he won't give up.» hacer insinuaciones sobre = make + noises about ; make + a noise about .
Example: The government have been making noises about it for some time but haven't quite got round to it. Example: The really good news is that we can stand up as one and that all we have to do is make a noise about it.» insinuación sexual = sexual overture ; sexual innuendo .
Example: It is concluded that situational variables are the best predictors of women's reactions to unwanted sexual overtures. Example: The rules also crack down on sexual innuendo, 'off-colour' jokes and offensive language.