innuendo
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General noun
An indirect, usually derogatory or suggestive insinuation.
The article was full of innuendo about his private life without stating anything outright.
Law noun
A statement whose defamatory meaning arises only from extrinsic facts known to those to whom it is published.
By way of innuendo the claimant argued that readers aware of his profession would understand the words as an accusation of fraud.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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