innuendo

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A derogatory hint or reference to, or (often sexual) insinuation about, a person or thing.

   “She made a devious innuendo about her opponent, who was embarrassed.”

2. isim A remark that is suggestive of something sexual without stating it explicitly.

   “We were both quite good friends and apart from the playful innuendos about having an affair together we never really did anything.”

3. isim A rhetorical device with an omitted but obvious conclusion, made to increase the force of an argument.
4. isim Part of a pleading in cases of libel and slander, pointing out what and who was meant by the libellous matter or description.
5. fiil To interpret (something libellous or slanderous) in terms of what was implied.

   “A statement that a person's presence at a certain club may be "irksome," may be innuendoed that the person is of such bad character as not to be a fit associate with honourable men.”