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insinuation

 noun
     
in‧sin‧u‧a‧tion
1 [countable] something that someone says which seems to mean something unpleasant, but does not say this openly:
She rejected the insinuation that she was partly to blame.
2 [uncountable] when someone says something insinuating
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