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insinuating
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective insinuating has 1 sense
- insinuating(s = adj.all) ingratiating, ingratiatory - calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
CIDE DICTIONARY
insinuating, a.
Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"His address was courteous, and even insinuating."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
insinuating
adulatory, allusive, allusory, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, complimentary, courtierly, courtly, deferential, disarming, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, fulsome, gushing, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, implicational, implicative, implicatory, indicative, inferential, insincere, insinuative, insinuatory, ironic, mealymouthed, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, referential, saccharine, silken, silky, slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft-soaping, suggestive, sycophantic, unctuous, wheedling
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