Word Meanings - INSINUATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. Milton. His address was courteous, and even insinuating. Prescott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSINUATING)

• Subtle
• Sly
• artful
• cunning
• insinuating
• wily
• astute
• nice
• discriminating
• crafty
• fine
• shrewd
• sophistical
• Jesuitical

Related words: (words related to INSINUATING)

• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• SUBTLE
  subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle
• DISCRIMINATENESS
  The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INSINUATION
  1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw. 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good
• DISCRIMINATOR
  One who discriminates.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• DISCRIMINATE
  Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens. Bacon. (more info) divide, separate, fr. discrimen division, distinction, decision, fr.
• DISCRIMINATELY
  In a discriminating manner; distinctly.
• INSINUATORY
  Insinuative.
• DISCRIMINATING
  Marking a difference; distinguishing. -- Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning.
• INSINUATING
  Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. Milton. His address was courteous, and even insinuating. Prescott.
• INSINUATIVE
  1. Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor. "Crafty, insinuative, plausible men." Bp. Reynolds. 2. Using insinuations; giving hints; insinuating; as, insinuative remark.
• DISCRIMINATION
  The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating;
• DISCRIMINATIVELY
  With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster.
• SUBTLENESS
  The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• THEOSOPHISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
• JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
• SUPERSUBTLE
  To subtle. Shak.
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.