What's the difference between innuendo and innuent?
Innuendo
Definition:
(n.) An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
(n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(2) Perhaps, there could be another top English club that needs a new manager in the summer but it is Sherwood who must live with the innuendo.
(3) Lyricist Tim Rice , who co-wrote two tracks on Barcelona, says nonetheless that Mercury would never have abandoned Queen, who hit No 1 with their album The Miracle in 1989 and again with Innuendo in February 1991.
(4) Sullivan’s comments were poorly received by Austin, who hit out at “inaccurate, misleading and uninformed innuendo” in a statement, and there is a possibility he may take legal action.
(5) And he referred to his own MP, Nadine Dorries, as "frustrated" – Tory boy innuendo.
(6) Haji-Ioannou and his easyGroup had instigated a series of "increasingly personalised attacks", Rake declared , "involving a number of inaccurate and misleading statements, including inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo".
(7) "There is a big distinction between innuendo and rumour and actual proof," said Whittingdale told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday.
(8) Trump now looks almost certain to inherit a party he has left bitterly divided through a brand of politics defined by innuendo, race-baiting and outright demagoguery .
(9) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
(10) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(11) In some of the fiercest exchanges of the 2016 presidential race so far, Clinton accused her challenger of “artfully smearing” her with “innuendo and insinuation” by suggesting payments from Wall Street were a sign of corruption.
(12) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(13) In recent days, Trump has attacked the Clintons on ethics, performance and sexual innuendo as Clinton routinely draws on her husband’s economic record in campaign speeches.
(14) After all, she asks, before proceeding to pose for the camera with two crab-shaped balloons, grimacing and spitting sexual innuendos ("Crabbbbbbbbbbbssss!
(15) According to the state's KRQE news station , Nancy Wilmott complained to Alamogordo High School because of the book's "sexual innuendos and harsh language".
(16) Sally Bercow may have agreed to pay a settlement to Lord McAlpine, but the high court has ensured the British tweeting public will be paying in fun, irony and innuendo forever.
(17) At the annual meeting in February, he fought back and accused the disgruntled investor of a campaign of "inappropriate and defamatory assertions and innuendo" against the carrier's executives.
(18) Provoking MPs' schoolboy mirth at the hint of an innuendo to the female MP, the prime minister joked: "Maybe I should start all over again."
(19) Then I laughed and thought it must have been a mistake for such a juvenile innuendo to have been printed in a newspaper.
(20) Hillary’s speech was carefully pitched: peppered with sufficient innuendo about the presidential run to keep the crowd satisfied - “It’s true, I am … thinking about it,” she said – but ensuring the limelight was deflected to on Harkin, Braley and Obama.