insinuative

Example Sentences

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Still, there was a strong sense of unity to the work, and a prevailing mood of insinuative bombast.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015

Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another charge made by Hochhuth is that through certain insinuative speeches, Churchill manipulated Hitler into initiating a few scattered bombing raids on British towns.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the beginning, he is morally wary of Cassius' insinuative efforts to draw him into a conspiracy against Caesar.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was watching her pupil, storing up in her memory the mispronunciations and vulgarisms for later insinuative improvement.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel