Innuendo

(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.

艾布拉姆编辑

• I suppose Mary Garth admires Mr. Lydgate, said Rosamond, not without a touch of innuendo. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There were volumes of innuendo in the way the eventually was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• His niece viewed his man?uvres and received his innuendoes with phlegm; apparently she did not above half comprehend to what aim they tended. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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