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Definition of 'innuendo'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) innuendo
an indirect intimation about a person or thing, esp. of a disparaging nature.

2. innuendo
Law.

3. innuendo
a parenthetic explanation or specification in a pleading.

Etymology: (1555–65; < L: by nodding, abl. of innuendum, ger. of innuere to signal with a nod)

Definition of 'innuendo'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) insinuation, innuendo
an indirect (and usually malicious) implication

Definition of 'innuendo'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) innuendo
an oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation

2. (noun) innuendo
an averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief

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