Synonyms:
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
Meaning: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
Synonyms:
insinuate
Meaning: introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner; "He insinuated himself into the conversation of the people at the nearby table"
Usage examples
It seemed to be his design rather to insinuate than directly to assert that, physically, he had not always been what he was--that a long series of neuralgic attacks had reduced him from a condition of more than usual personal beauty, to that which I saw.
Miss Evelyn, to whom wrath and violence had hitherto been strangers, soon grew weary of such usage; and rashly, and without a witness, consented to a private marriage with Sir John Belmont, a very profligate young man, who had but too successfully found means to insinuate himself into her favour.