INNUENDO (innuendoes)

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Irregular inflected form: innuendoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does innuendo mean? 

• INNUENDO (noun)
  The noun INNUENDO has 1 sense:

1. an indirect (and usually malicious) implication

  Familiarity information: INNUENDO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNUENDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indirect (and usually malicious) implication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

innuendo; insinuation

Hypernyms ("innuendo" is a kind of...):

implication (an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection)

 Context examples 

There were three married couples and Jordan's escort, a persistent undergraduate given to violent innuendo and obviously under the impression that sooner or later Jordan was going to yield him up her person to a greater or lesser degree.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)