meaning of innuendo
1. An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
2. An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.
3. an indirect and usually malicious implication
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