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{"id": "insinuate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "insinuate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "insinuative", "text": "insinuative"}, {"id": "insinuator", "text": "insinuator"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 16th century (in the sense \u2018enter (a document) on the official register\u2019): from Latin insinuat- \u2018introduced tortuously\u2019, from the verb insinuare, from in- \u2018in\u2019 + sinuare \u2018to curve\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/insinuate_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u026an\u02c8s\u026anj\u028ae\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["suggest or hint (something bad) in an indirect and unpleasant way"], "examples": [{"notes": [{"text": "with clause", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "he was insinuating that I had no self-control"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0512400.008", "shortDefinitions": ["suggest or hint something bad in indirect and unpleasant way"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "imply"}, {"language": "en", "text": "suggest"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hint"}, {"language": "en", "text": "intimate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "whisper"}, {"language": "en", "text": "indicate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "convey the impression"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give a clue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give an inkling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "allude to the fact"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make reference to the fact"}, {"language": "en", "text": "let it be known"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give someone to understand"}, {"language": "en", "text": "give someone to believe"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "insinuate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007957.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["slide (oneself or a thing) slowly and smoothly into a particular place"], "examples": [{"text": "I insinuated my shoulder in the gap"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0512400.015", "shortDefinitions": ["slide oneself or thing slowly and smoothly into particular place"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["manoeuvre oneself into (a favourable position) by subtle manipulation"], "examples": [{"text": "he insinuated himself into the king's confidence"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0512400.016", "notes": [{"text": "\"insinuate oneself into\"", "type": "wordFormNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["manoeuvre oneself into favourable position by subtle manipulation"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "worm one's way into"}, {"language": "en", "text": "work one's way into"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ingratiate oneself with"}, {"language": "en", "text": "curry favour with"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "insinuate_oneself_into", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007957.003"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "slide"}, {"language": "en", "text": "slip"}, {"language": "en", "text": "manoeuvre"}, {"language": "en", "text": "insert"}, {"language": "en", "text": "edge"}, {"language": "en", "text": "work"}, {"language": "en", "text": "move into position"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "insinuate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0007957.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "insinuate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "insinuate"}], "word": "insinuate"}
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