Is Insinuendo a Word?

It is one of the few words in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to which an editorial note has been attached: “A tasteless word”, it says, signed with the initials of the then editor, Dr Robert Burchfield. ... The Oxford English Dictionary knows of it from 1885.

What is an Insinuendo?

Noun. insinuendo (plural insinuendos or insinuendoes) insinuation containing innuendo quotations ▼

How do you spell Insinuendo?

nounplural noun insinuendos

'Despite the insinuendo in the book, Denis accompanied his wife of 19 years to her reading. ' 'He draws us in with poignant songs of penetrating insinuendo, closer to our hearts than we care to admit. '

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