Citations:insinuendo


 * 1871 William R Emerson, Putkins, a one-act comic drama
 * “I scorn the insinuendo!"
 * 1875 Appletons’ Journal
 * The South Carolina Legislature has immortalized itself by coining the word “insinuendos.” Seeing the wideness of its application, the Tribune begs to be “permitted to express the obligations which society, and especially society’s representatives in official life, legislators, cabinet officers, and such, are under for an uncommonly fresh, beautiful, and expressive phrase. It admirably fits the time. It is a contribution to current politics as well as to philology.
 * 1888 Brander Matthews, Pen and Ink; Papers on Subjects of More Or Less Importance, p57
 * Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.
 * 1894 Charles Carleton Coffin, Dan of Millbrook: A story of American life, Estes and Lauriat, p100
 * "None of your insinuendoes, sah, if you please; and allow me to say that you would be putrified with amazement, sah, if you were to see de [sic] way we do thing at our house, sah."
 * 1903 Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Grant Richards
 * There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. I hate his nasty insinuendos.
 * 1907 George Milbry Gould, Biographic clinics, P. Blakiston's Son and Co., p324
 * I say so bluntly, and you by “insinuendo.” I do not think that frank statements are more dishonorable and unprofessional than roundabout implication.
 * 1918 Eugene Wood, "Missed It - The Big Idea," Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., p30
 * It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.
 * 1962 Ronald David Laing, The self and others: further studies in sanity and madness, Tavistock Publications, p154
 * One paranoid patient's expression expression for statements of this kind was 'insinuendoes.'
 * 1964 Milton Rokeach, The three Christs of Ypsilanti: a psychological study, Knopf, p131
 * "I don't have it," says Leon. "It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo."
 * 1997 David Solway, Lying about the wolf: essays in culture and education, McGill-Queen's Press, p78
 * At any rate, I have always – until now – tried to stay away from personal controversy, to resist the temptation to insinuendo, and to avoid the sly, vicious, or merely quodlibetical exchanges to often associated with scholastic debate.
 * 2003 Robin Holloway, "Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy," On music: essays and diversions 1963-2003, Continuum International Publishing Group, p293
 * No half-lit hints like Jeux or erotic insinuendo as in Daphnis and Chloë – for all its refinement the Poéme d’extase goes naked, erect and proud.
 * 2006 Edna Buchanan, Shadows, Simon & Schuster, p174
 * "I don't like those insinuendos. Tell me when I had an accident! Name one!"
 * "I don't like those insinuendos. Tell me when I had an accident! Name one!"