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Pronunciation: [ɪnsˈɪnjuːˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Insinuates is a word that is often used in communication to convey a certain meaning or message. However, there are many other words that can be used in place of insinuates to achieve the same effect. A few of these synonyms include hints, implies, suggests, alludes, intimates, and implies. These words carry similar connotations to insinuates, but each has a slightly different nuance. Using these alternative words can help to add variation to your writing and make it more interesting to read. So, the next time you find yourself using insinuates repeatedly, consider switching it up with one of these synonyms.

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Usage examples for Insinuates

The treacherous Captain, to lull the suspicions of his betrothed, insinuates that poor Miss Sarti entertains a hopeless passion for him, which puts the poor girl, who gets an inkling of this double-dealing, into a frenzy of indignation.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
It seems to me it would scarcely be well for me to allow her to manage my life; she insinuates thoughts into my heart which do not belong there.
"Early Plays Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans"
Henrik Ibsen
She insinuates herself into all human concerns from the greatest to the most insignificant, she interferes in both public and private life; she baptizes the child when it comes into the world, accompanies the child to school, monopolises love, declaring it shameful and abominable if it does not submit to her benediction, and divides the earth into two categories-the consecrated, for those who die in her bosom, and the dunghill in the open air for the heretic.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez

Famous quotes with Insinuates

  • It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
    Gaston Bachelard
  • The idea of a law of progress, or of an all but irresistible tendency to general improvement, is then merely a superstition, one of the tents of the modernist pseudo-religion of humanism. Even if such a law or tendency existed and were demonstrable, the liberal faith in progress would for Santayana be pernicious. For it leads to a corrupt habit of mind in which things are valued, not for their present excellence or perfection, but instrumentally, as leading to something better; and it insinuates into thought and feeling a sort of historical theodicy, in which past evil is justified as a means to present or future good. The idea of progress embodies a kind of (to adopt an expression used by Wyndham Lewis) in which the particularities of our world are seen and valued, not in themselves, but for what they might perhaps become, thereby leaving us destitute of the sense of the present and, at the same time, of the perspective of eternity.
    John Gray (philosopher)
  • A minimum of unconsciousness is necessary if one wants to stay inside history. To act is one thing; to know one is acting is another. When lucidity invests the action, insinuates itself into it, action is undone, and with it, prejudice, whose function consists, precisely, in subordinating, in enslaving consciousness to action. The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths. No man concerned with his equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.
    Emil Cioran

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