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innuendoes

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Plural of innuendo

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He has made a couple of forays to America, where his innocent innuendoes and music-hall style rather flopped.

"I do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendoes, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after".

The baking is all well and good, and often of quite staggering quality but what we're really hoping for is another #Bingate (when Iain Watters dumped his Baked Alaska after it failed to freeze) and yet more wonderful innuendoes from the seemingly so innocent Mary.

"Innuendoes against Gabon," wrote the Times of Zambia, "will continue to fly for as long as memories of the crash, the frustrated searchers, the almost triumphant grin of a referee named Diramba, linger on in the Zambian mind".

What began as mild innuendoes rapidly escalated into blunt charges of plagiarism on both sides.

In "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Wallace Stevens famously said he didn't know whether he preferred "The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendoes, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after".

Americans were hooked on a story rife with rumors — and with the same instruments that Condit apparently used to seduce Levy, innuendoes and falsehoods — and remained obsessed until Sept. 11.

Dealers have mistakenly called her a former Tiffany staff member and have also made "innuendoes," he said, that she was the mistress of Tiffany or La Farge.

"Laughter in Czer­nopol," the narrator tells us, "had been elevated to an art form, a folk art of unparalleled authenticity... well endowed with the most vivid references, not to mention all manner of innuendoes".

Mr. Furst is better at establishing Salonika's subjugation to the Ottoman Empire than he is at making what, for him, are atypically blunt sexual innuendoes.

For those of us who are old, Joseph McCarthy has clearly been reincarnated in the body and spirit of Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas: same appearance (brooding, ominous), same curl of the lip, same shameless innuendoes and lies, same gigantic ego.

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