21 Verbs to Use for the Word innuendo

But when she spoke it was to ignore the innuendo, intended or not.

And where is that good Monsieur Monk to-night?" The woman overlooked the innuendo; or, rather, buried it under a landslide of emotional acting.

He stifled his dislikes; he was silent under sneers and disparaging innuendoes lest inopportune speech might work injury to the great cause confided to him.

"I nominate for the first pedestal in our Hall of Legal Ill FameRaphael B. Hogan," announced Tutt, complacently disregarding all innuendoes.

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.

By never speaking an unkind word, by treating Albert with gentle courtesy, by never seeming to feel his innuendoes, Plausaby heaped coals of fire on his enemies' head, and had faith to believe that the coals were very hot.

"Pardon?" said Dempsey, and then, grasping the innuendo: "No, sir, he did not.

I hate your innuendoes!"

"If you stick to your guns you have a better show than anyone to bag the boss of Five-Bob." "I am at a loss to interpret your innuendo, Mr Bossier," I said stiffly.

After drinking a good many cups of tea, and praising it, their asceticism gave way to its social effect, and they began to gossip, ridiculing their neighbors, and occasionally launching innuendoes against their absent lords.

"Going to and fro in the earth, walking up and down in it," everywhere peering and listening, smiling and shrugging, here and there dropping a hint, sowing a seed, leering an innuendo; seldom saying, only implying; leaving everywhere trails of slime, yet trails too vague and broken to track him by, secure in his very cowardice.

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!

Impossibleand the more so the longer he pondered itto credit to mere coincidence the innuendoes uttered at the château by Mr. Monk and his party.

There was a fascination about Gussie's methods which gripped and made one reluctant to pass the thing up provided personal innuendoes were steered clear of.

That avarice was one of Seneca's temptations is too probable; that expediency was a guiding principle of his conduct is but too evident; and for a man with such a character to rebut an innuendo is never an easy task.

"We here saw no innuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods."Id.

But your secretary had emphatically warned me off all politics, and I feared that however carefully I might be on my guard against every reference to the burning questions of the hour, yet the clever eyes of political charity would be sure to spy out party innuendoes in the most innocent deliverances of purely abstract philosophy.

You may silence discontent, you may suppress spiteful innuendos and even sulky looks, you may put down mutiny, by sheer terror.

I was forced to accept the innuendo beneath his enigmatic utterances.

Nobody had doubted his sincerity, though Smith Westcott had uttered many innuendoes.

Since things are thus, se defendendo, I bar fallacious innuendo.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  innuendo