An indirect (and usually malicious) implication

Usage examples of innuendo.

Rivenhall arrived in time to hear the end of a dialogue between the three servants so icily civil, so bristling with veiled innuendo as to terrify poor Lady Ombersley.

I wished that I could forget the Cassandra-like faces of Dorcas and Alison, the hints and innuendos, the fanatical eyes of old Pegger in the porch.

Filled with titillation, sarcasm, innuendos, and suggestions of radical activities of a violent nature.

The rest of the newsies focused on rumor and innuendo, ignoring the microeconomic impact to cover instead their projected fears for the future.

I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.

After six weeks or so with the Wests, their continued bickering, his bragging and the relentless sexual innuendoes began to take their toll on Carol Raine, and she announced that she wanted to leave.

An observer must notice that the usual theatre-audience in New York or Boston today laughs at and applauds costumes, situations, innuendoes, doubtful suggestions, that it would have blushed at a few years ago.

She enjoyed his mocking high spirits and the innuendos which went with them.

She shoved a menu at him, refusing to be drawn into a game of innuendos and double entendres.

There was just too much irony with the innuendos flying between them, Casey mentally suspected.

Paolo tried to convince me that Judah was a special case, but now that my eyes were opened to the reality of the Mo letters, I saw sexual innuendos everywhere.

And just for the record, damn it, sooner or later that double innuendo of yours is going to get through to even somebody as dense as Helmut Brinker, and people are going to start wondering how a knee-high eight-year-old gets off cracks you usually hear in a burlesque revival.

Although he smiles faintly, Creslin has nothing to say to either man, particularly since he has no doubt that any wit he might display would be far less practiced than that of two men who have spent a lifetime mastering the innuendo.

His whole vocation flashed through his mind, the dreams at his ordination, the thrill of Europe and Karl Metzen, a boy's fantasy of Ursula, the adult and boys' choirs and the improved music throughout the diocese, the confrontation with Bishop Sullivan, and the angry innuendo that had sent him to Farmington.

Most of the men she worked with, there was innuendo, the occasional blue joke - looking for her to react.