Insinuatingly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an insinuating way.

    "H. G. Wells It [electricity] came into the house with the cat on any dry day and crackled insinuatingly whenever he stroked her fur."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an insinuating manner wordnet

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"In rural Ibaan, Batangas, Philippines, I was eating jackfruit in the verandah, as my Uncle Boy said that jackfruit would taste more delicious if I were speaking in Tagalog, insinuatingly than in English."

Etymology

From insinuating + -ly.

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