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noun an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
noun the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments
originBorrowed from Middle French insinuation, from Old French, from Latin insinuatio, from īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0