INSINUATED Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in hinted

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verb

past tense of insinuate

as in infiltrated

to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way years were needed for the agent to insinuate himself into the terrorist organization

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as in implied

to convey an idea indirectly are you insinuating that I won by cheating?

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as in inserted

to put among or between others quietly insinuated herself among the concertgoers raptly listening to the piano solo

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The other insinuated that Warren is not a real Bears fan, though Sweet didn’t read it that way. — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 17 July 2026 Hawaiian Airlines first insinuated that my credit card was declined. — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 29 June 2026 Beginning with the Beat Generation, slowly and gently, like pot smoke seeping from a college dorm room, America’s counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s insinuated itself in unlikely places with unexpected results. — Lewis Jacobsen, Air Mail, 23 May 2026 But Finch insinuated that’s also a team issue. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026 Initially, the white Democrats who ruled the South responded to the rise of Black political power by crafting racist narratives that insinuated that the emergence of Black voters and Black officeholders was a corruption of the proper political order. — Robert D. Bland, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026 This is because the girls are both insinuated to be June’s daughters. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 Mora insinuated that an honest-to-goodness QB battle in FoCo could continue through the summer months. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026 In fact, the structure, tropes, character types, and expressive language of opera insinuated themselves into film from the very beginning. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for insinuated

Adjective

And for the first time in more than a decade, the international group responsible for those guidelines has updated its suggested protocols.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 June 2026
Johnson said the suggested economic damages of $5 million were for items including loss of earnings, loss of marital care and loss of guidance.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026

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If 2025 was the year AI infiltrated every corner of consumer life — from social feeds to shopping — 2026 is the year people are pausing for thought.

— Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 14 July 2026
But in this case, Kamdang said, Patriot Front members faced no criminal charges and their identities were only revealed when online activists later infiltrated the group and leaked internal records.

— Odette Yousef, NPR, 11 July 2026

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His team also collapses down the stretch and even though its not implied, the link is obvious that Mayfield’s health is a contributing factor.

— Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
But the inference is that the rankings implied where the quarterbacks stood entering 2026.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 July 2026

Definition of implied

Verb

Since 2017, Hebden has built up a tidy discography of sub rosa loosies and EPs under the alias, and even snuck out an ultra-limited vinyl anthology of them in 2021; some of those tracks first surfaced on the Four Tet album Parallel, in 2020.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
On Thursday, a man named Andrew Truelove allegedly snuck past a security guard on the Today show set and made his way toward the co-hosts in search of Today’s Al Roker, who was not on-screen at the time.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Definition of sneaked

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Private owners had already introduced debt, taken substantial proceeds, and prepared an offering that would leave control concentrated even after the shares began trading.

— Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
The prospective buyer, Pulte Homes Group, a residential construction company, introduced a preliminary review to the Village Board in May.

— Alexandra Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026

Definition of introduced

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The stock has fallen about 20% in July and briefly slipped below its $135 IPO price on Wednesday for the first time.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 July 2026
And little by little, Venezuela slipped off the front pages — even though, for millions of people, the work of rebuilding is just getting started.

— Cristina Guevara, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026

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