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What is the noun for innuendos?

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innuendo
  1. A derogatory hint or reference to a person or thing. An implication, intimation or insinuation.
  2. (logic) A rhetorical device with an omitted, but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
  3. (law) Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America.”
      “The lavish praise is only possible because the book note is riddled with factual errors and misleading innuendo from start to finish.”
      “But despite a press barrage of innuendo and insinuations, he has not been charged with, let alone found guilty of, any crime.”
innuendos
  1. plural of innuendo
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And, in their laddish way, they will make lewd and disparaging remarks and innuendos.”
      “There's not much promise in the situation, and the dialogue has a few innuendos that are, by the standards of the time, gross.”
      “Dress conduct, sexual innuendos at the workplace and other such issues are raised in the book.”
innuendis
  1. (rare) plural of innuendo
innuendoes
  1. plural of innuendo
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is plenty of Shakespeare's bawdy humour too and the sexual innuendoes come thick and fast.”
      “A lack of imagination on the part of the writer, the director and the actors results in slapstick comedy and innuendoes in dialogues.”
      “There was a hircine lasciviousness in Glen's leers and innuendoes that the girls at the party quickly grew to despise.”
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