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innuendo

/in-yoo-en-doh/US // ˌɪn yuˈɛn doʊ //UK // (ˌɪnjʊˈɛndəʊ) //

含沙射影,影射,暗示,含义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·nu·en·dos, in·nu·en·does.

    • : an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.
    • : Law. a parenthetic explanation or specification in a pleading. the explanation and elucidation of the words alleged to be defamatory.the word or expression thus explained.

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Examples

  • A vaccine skeptic community that often focuses on unverified data, innuendo and false and misleading comparisons is suddenly pointing to Israel again.

  • It also lets you share payments between you and others to your feed, and tag it with a note that can be a direct statement, a cryptic innuendo or inside joke, or just a series of emoji.

  • Hours of interviews, testimony and innuendo flooded cable news.

  • Jordanian leadership has refused to specify who it was alluding to, triggering a swirl of speculation built around some facts, plenty of innuendo and a context that is the hidden story behind the crisis in Jordan.

  • FitzGerald’s relationship with veteran reporter Ward Just meant she avoided the sexual advances and innuendo that trailed Leroy.

  • But the entendre and innuendo permeates the rest of the series—often innocently, but sometimes far more blatantly.

  • The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”

  • The presidential paramour was French film star Julie Gayet, 42, confirming months of behind-the-scenes innuendo.

  • For years your bright light was darkened by a blizzard of lies, cheating and innuendo.

  • After more innuendo-laden, sex-soaked back-and-forths, Eric poured a martini.

  • Gossip in all its moods and tenses, from the vague indicative of mere innuendo, to the full subjunctive of open defamation!

  • This exhibited enormous, black head-lines, screaming innuendo of the most blasting character.

  • "All very well going up," murmured the mountaineer: there was a sinister innuendo in the curt comments of the practical man.

  • Piper was heartily glad that Hooker had won, and he felt that Roy was generous in his willingness to overlook Shultzs innuendo.

  • She was inimitably dexterous and indefatigable in improving every occasion of innuendo.