innuendo

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A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing, especially a sexual one. An implication or insinuation

She made a sly innuendo about her husband, who was embarrassed.

insinuation
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation
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
(in defamation) part of an indictment or pleading making it clear that the damaging statement was intended to apply to the plaintiff, or spelling out the latent defamatory nature of apparently innocent words
(N) -an indirect comment about a person or thing, esp of a disparaging or a derogatory nature
n a veiled, oblique, or covert allusion to something not directly named : hint, insinuation
Innuendo is indirect reference to something rude or unpleasant. The report was based on rumours, speculation, and innuendo. innuendoes innuendos a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly, or these remarks in general double entendre
an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
{i} hint, intimation, indirect suggestion (usually derogatory)
A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication or insinuation
An innuendo is a slanter that works by implying what it does not actually say: "Far be it from me to call my opponent a liar "
ınnuendo
{n} an oblique or distant hint; in law a word to ascertain the precise person
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