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INSINUATINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does insinuatingly mean?
• INSINUATINGLY (adverb)
The adverb INSINUATINGLY has 1 sense:
1. in an insinuating manner
Familiarity information: INSINUATINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an insinuating manner
Context example:
the art book has art to sell, insinuatingly, and for a purpose, like the American muse, which has in fact a tradition to sell, and one which doesn't exist, in painting
Context examples
"I know Meg would wet-blanket such a proposal, but I thought you had more spirit," began Laurie insinuatingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mugridge grinned insinuatingly in my face as I shoved him out and ordered him back to his galley work; and he won his revenge by spreading glowing reports among the hunters as to what an excellent lydy’s-myde
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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