[
UK
/ɪnsˈɪnjuːˌeɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪnjueɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪnjueɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
calculated to please or gain favor
a smooth ingratiating manner
How To Use insinuating In A Sentence
- Show them that he is insinuating himself there.
- ''I feel her everywhere,'' Mrs. Danvers insinuatingly tells the second Mrs. de Winter, the unnamed narrator. Psychos, Obsessives And Other Loons
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- Eyeing his father's money with growing envy, his fourth son tried to and succeeded in insinuating himself into his father's favour.
- He was already insinuating himself into Brian's professional life for his own gain!
- The pottingar delivered his opinion in a most insinuating manner; but he seemed to shrink into something less than his natural tenuity when he saw the blood rise in the old cheek of Simon Glover, and inflame to the temples the complexion of the redoubted smith. The Fair Maid of Perth
- S. troop positions in the other. Surely there are better, less insinuating ways to cover up or apologize for a drunken photo than legally disowning your name.
- It was thick and you could see, by the porch lights, wispy tendrils insinuating themselves around plants and patio furniture.
- In addition to insinuating their Embassy man into the Cheltenham delegation,[sentence dictionary] the Soviets could have scored a separate gain.
- She took it further at dinner by insinuating she was his beard.