innuendo
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Several critics noted that Lawson did not deliver as much innuendo as expected during her debut in the tent.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Owens’ story is backed by innuendo, exaggerations, outright falsehoods, and, in several instances, messages delivered through Owens’ own dreams.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
In 2011, when he was a business minister, Sir Ed said Andrew was doing an "excellent job" as trade envoy and dismissed concerns around him at the time as "innuendo".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Online, true crime fanatics have parsed through information about the case — filling in the limited details with rumor, innuendo and sometimes downright conspiracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
So she’d let no insult or innuendo slide.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
His dismissed the prosecution’s case as nothing more than “theories, hypotheses, innuendoes, assumptions, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck.”
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
The narrative voice brims with innuendoes and habitual repetitions like “I know, I understand” and “God’s truth,” which imbue the character with an edgy eccentricity.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2020
Livid with the way her son had been treated by the MPD, Donna became a gold-mine of tips, hints, innuendoes, rumours, gossip and occasional facts.
From BBC ● May 17, 2013
She still dealt in her former slurs and innuendoes; the leopard could not change its spots; no such radical reformation was naturally to be expected.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
For Innuendo Bingo - which Mills claimed Prince William was a fan of - the DJ would play out innuendos while Stark and a celebrity guest tried to keep their mouths full of water.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
An Alibaba Group spokesperson told AFP "the assertions and innuendos in the article are completely false".
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
Russell Westbrook no doubt heard the innuendos when he was a triple-double machine.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
“To address these false accusations, defamatory statements and innuendos I have filed a lawsuit against both DEF CON Communications and Jeff Moss.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 18, 2022
Me: “‘I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.’”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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