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insinuate

C1 verb

insinuate /ɪnˈsɪnjueɪt/ nghĩa là ám chỉ, nói bóng gió

Các nghĩa

  1. ám chỉ, nói bóng gió

    To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

    She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

    And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow?

    And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses.

  2. khéo léo lấy lòng, luồn lọt

    To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.

    broadly · figuratively

    Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.

    He[…] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.

    […] he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn—[…]

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