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What is the adjective for insinuating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb insinuate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

insinuative
  1. Tending to insinuate; insinuating
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sycophantic, crawling, flattering, obsequious, toadying, unctuous, humble, disarming, saccharine, smarmy, charming, deferential, insinuatory, serving, silken, soft, suggestive, fawning, servile, oily, bootlicking, slimy, sucky, slick, submissive, smooth, greasy, insincere, cajoling, creeping, cloying, nauseating, sickening, wheedling, slippery, insinuating, timeserving, creepy, winning, ingratiating, smooth-tongued, brown-nosing, Uriah Heepish, smooth-talking, silver-tongued, honey-tongued, grovelling, cringing, subservient, oleaginous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The contractor had caught no sign revealing whether his insinuative words were having effect.”
      “Sometimes she trades elegance for restlessness, jump-cutting wildly between gleeful choruses and mumbly rapping and insinuative verses.”
      “They form an agreeable contrast to the chaos of oppressive learning of the time, and have an insinuative air about them.”
insinuant
  1. (obsolete) Insinuating; insinuative.
insinuatory
  1. insinuative
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sycophantic, crawling, flattering, obsequious, toadying, unctuous, humble, disarming, saccharine, smarmy, charming, deferential, insinuative, serving, silken, soft, suggestive, fawning, servile, oily, bootlicking, slimy, sucky, slick, submissive, smooth, greasy, insincere, cajoling, creeping, cloying, nauseating, sickening, wheedling, slippery, insinuating, timeserving, creepy, winning, ingratiating, smooth-tongued, brown-nosing, Uriah Heepish, smooth-talking, silver-tongued, honey-tongued … more
insinuated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of insinuate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. made, alluded, implied, indicated, inferred, intimated, proposed, prove, proved, suggested, hinted at, pointed at, pointed in direction of, pointed out, pointed to, pointed toward, signified, led to believe, hinted, connoted, signalled, signaled, got at, referred to, meant, meaned, referred, alluded to the fact, conveyed the impression, imputed, intended, leaked, driven at, tipped off, said indirectly, made out, drove at, alluded to, let it be known, gotten at, mentioned, purported, broached, denoted, ascribed, gave someone to understand, given an inkling, gave an inkling, given someone to understand, given someone to believe … more
insinuating
  1. present participle of insinuate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. implying, suggesting, hinting, indicating, intimating, alluding, whispering, inferring, ascribing, connoting, imputing, mentioning, proposing, purporting, referring, signifying, conveying the impression, giving a clue, giving an inkling, making out, alluding to the fact, giving someone to believe, giving someone to understand, making reference to the fact, letting it be known, tipping the wink, signaling, signalling, hinting at, alluding to, driving at, meaning, getting at, referring to, intending, leaking, saying indirectly, tipping off, broaching, pointing to, pointing toward, cueing, importing, exposing, implicating, angling, denoting, leading up to, touching on, giving a hint … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The well-seasoned Washingtonian then makes an insinuating remark about what goes on in these tip-top parlors around here.”
      “You are likely to be surprised at the promptness with which an insinuating gentleman from the Secret Service will call on you.”
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