Insinuating Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-sĭnyo͝o-ātĭng
Provoking a change of outlook and especially gradual doubt and suspicion
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. insinuative
  2. insinuatory
  3. suggestive
Purposefully contrived to gain favor
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ingratiating
  2. ingratiatory
  3. saccharine
  4. sugary
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To introduce slowly or artfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. maneuvering
  2. worming
  3. infiltrating
  4. working
  5. injecting
  6. winding
  7. edging
  8. infusing
Antonyms:
  1. dashing
  2. pushing
To express or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) in an indirect or insidious way.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. suggesting
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Words Related to Insinuating

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Insinuating Sentence Examples

  • Moreover, under insinuating and crafty pretexts, Henry IV.

  • In the Vaishnava camp, on the other hand, the cult of Krishna, and more especially that of the youthful Krishna, can scarcely fail to exert an influence which, if of a subtler and more insinuating, is not on that account of a less demoralizing kind.

  • Archbishop Stone, who never married, was a man of remarkably handsome appearance, and his manners were "eminently seductive and insinuating."

  • Hitherto Catherine had been merely the resigned and neglected wife of Henry II., and though eloquent, insinuating and ambitious, she had been inactive.

  • His eloquence was in turn majestic, fierce, playful, insinuating; his gesticulation natural, vivid, large, powerful.

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