Which preposition to use with innuendos
Staring into the bushes without a yip, she appeared to be bearing these slurs and innuendos of mine with an easy calm.
What a mockery of right enjoyment our endless prying and sifting, our hunting of riddles in metaphors, innuendoes in tropes, ciphers in Shakspeare!
Fancy a man quoting Shylock when he pleads for his bond, or Iago's devilish innuendos against Desdemona's purity, as showing what Shakespeare liked or what he would have us imitate!
Do me the favour to leave off the business which you may be at present upon, and go immediately to the kitchens of Trinity and Caius, and make my most respectful compliments to Mr. Richard Hopkins, and assure him that his brawn is most excellent, and that I am moreover obliged to him for his innuendo about salt water and bran, which I shall not fail to improve.
He rushed forward and said: "The Vituperative candidate of the Intelligent let fall in a former speech some subtle or carefully worded innuendoes as to my character.
I was forced to accept the innuendo beneath his enigmatic utterances.