Insinuar in english

Insinuate

pronunciation: ɪnsɪnjueɪt part of speech: verb
In gestures

insinuarse = throw + hints ; suggestion + float ; make + innuendos ; make + advances at. 

Example: Now it is the turn of Libya to throw hints that it too needs to be mollycoddled.Example: Suggestions are being floated that things will change.Example: He repeatedly comments on my appearance, makes sexual innuendoes, and touches me.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.

insinuar = suggest ; hint ; imply ; insinuate ; drop + a hint ; intimate ; float ; clue ; make + noises about. 

Example: In effect, we'd be suggesting to them we don't have the book.Example: Stanley C Holliday hammers home the same message by more whimsical means hinting darkly that a sticky end at the hands of irritated colleagues awaits all librarians who fail to make adequate and accurate notes.Example: Omission does not imply that those areas are not important.Example: Novels are modes of prediction that insinuate visions of human relations not to be found in official rules or precepts or admonitions.Example: Presidents who manage by dropping hints sometimes devise little tests to see if their executives can read their minds.Example: Tiff smiled a little superciliously intimating that he had a plan all figured out already.Example: Recently they started floating that same comment again, only this time Democrats have had time to formulate a response.Example: My feelings about working women were clued by my observation of pregnant alley cats -- belly or no, they continue to jump over fences.Example: The government have been making noises about it for some time but haven't quite got round to it.

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» insinuarsethrow + hintssuggestion + floatmake + innuendosmake + advances at .

Example: Now it is the turn of Libya to throw hints that it too needs to be mollycoddled.

Example: Suggestions are being floated that things will change.

Example: He repeatedly comments on my appearance, makes sexual innuendoes, and touches me.

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.

» insinuar una ideafloat + an idea .

Example: The idea is being floated that to prevent any recurrence, a central European authority should control the budgets of member states.

Insinuar synonyms

intimate in spanish: íntimo, pronunciation: ɪntəmət part of speech: adjective adumbrate in spanish: bosquejar, pronunciation: ədʌmbreɪt part of speech: verb
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