Verb (used with object) : He insinuated that they were lying. ,to insinuate doubts through propaganda. ,to insinuate oneself into favor. From Dictionary.com.
This is all you desire at present, creeper on! insinuator!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
And isn't the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Hayden: Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream] Reference
We are minus a chimney on this insinuator, but we are bettin 'on you and the reindeers just the same, to slip one over on us and come shinnin' down a cocoanut-tree with your pack. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
I joined him, and, following Hyldy in a cloud of dust, the runner informed me between gasps that it was "along of burning his snout-raking for a bully-beef tin in the insinuator.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917] Reference
I have an idea for a short story that could develop...and I have an idea for a fascinating character based on a real person who I'd love to write into a book...a conflict-engineering virus of a person, a manipulator, insinuator, psychic bottom-feeder, a lonely monster whose elastic mind has stretched too far and is starting to unravel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Why, pr'ythee now, insinuator, said he, say the worst you can before. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
I have for years, during the life of the insinuator, held such self-justification unworthy of me; now even decency demands silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
We will not enter into the plans of the artful insinuator made to enlist the sympathies of the unsuspecting Englishman, but we must ever feel sure that the cloven foot was well concealed until the last, for. From Wordnik.com. [Four Months in a Sneak-Box] Reference
Why, pr’ythee now, insinuator, said he, say the worst you can before Longman and Mrs. Jervis. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
"Troutt, you're an insinuating old insinuator, and I'll ----". From Wordnik.com. [Wayside Courtships] Reference
But there was another Fontenelle, the untrammelled disciple of Descartes, a man of universal interests, passionless, but curious for all knowledge, an assimilator of new ideas, a dissolver of old beliefs, an intermediary between science and the world of fashion, a discreet insinuator of doubts, who smiled but never condescended to laugh, an intelligence supple, subtle, and untiring. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
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