insinuendoes
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insinuendoes
- plural of insinuendo
- 1894, Charles Carleton Coffin, Dan of Millbrook: A story of American life, Estes and Lauriat, page 100:
- "None of your insinuendoes, sah, if you please; and allow me to say that you would be putrified with amazement, sah, if you were to see de [sic] way we do thing at our house, sah."
- 1962, Ronald David Laing, The self and others: further studies in sanity and madness, Tavistock Publications, page 154:
- One paranoid patient's expression expression for statements of this kind was 'insinuendoes.'