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insinuating

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of insinuating

likely or intended to win one's affection
  • the fortune hunter's insinuating attentions were having their intended effect on the naive heiress
Synonyms of insinuating

disarming, endearing, ingratiating, winning, winsome
Words Related to insinuating

adorable, charming, likable (or likeable), lovable (also loveable)

affecting, poignant, touching

adulatory, deferential, effusive, flattering, fulsome, groveling (or grovelling), kowtowing, obsequious, servile, sycophantic

drooling, oleaginous, slavering, slobbering

saccharine, soapy, sugary, unctuous
Near Antonyms of insinuating

alienating, disaffecting, displeasing

repugnant, repulsive

arrogant, disdainful, haughty, insolent, proud, scornful
Antonyms of insinuating

unendearing, uningratiating

insinuating

verb , present participle of insinuate

Synonyms and Antonyms of insinuating

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

infiltrating, slipping, sneaking, winding, working in, worming, wriggling
Words Related to insinuating

creeping, edging, wiggling

inserting, interpolating, interposing, introducing
2 to convey an idea indirectly
  • are you insinuating that I won by cheating?
Synonyms of insinuating

alluding, hinting, implying, indicating, inferring, intimating, suggesting
Words Related to insinuating

adverting, mentioning, pointing, referring, signaling (or signalling), signalizing, signifying

smacking (of), smelling (of)
Near Antonyms of insinuating

announcing, declaring, proclaiming

elucidating, explaining, spelling out

delineating, describing
3 to put among or between others
  • quietly insinuated herself among the concertgoers raptly listening to the piano solo
Synonyms of insinuating

edging in, fitting (in or into), injecting, inserting, intercalating, interjecting, interpolating, interposing, interspersing, introducing, sandwiching (in or between), working in
Words Related to insinuating

cutting in, inlaying, insetting, installing

interfiling, interlining, larding, weaving

cramming, shoving, thrusting, wedging

adding, appending, attaching
Near Antonyms of insinuating

ejecting, eliminating, excluding, expelling, extracting, withdrawing

deducting, detaching, subtracting

rejecting

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