It's the word of the day for September 9th.
Today's word is insinuate, spelled I-N-S-I-N-U-A-T-E.
Insinuate is a verb.
To insinuate something, especially something bad or insulting,
is to say it in a subtle or indirect way.
Insinuate can also mean to gradually make oneself a part of a group,
a person's life, etc., often by behaving in a dishonest way.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Boston Globe.
When perennial talk among beachgoers about where to spend those beautiful but fleeting summer days involves rumors that,
perhaps, Narragansett is, say, uninviting to non-locals, officials contend that just isn't true.
When people say that, or insinuate that,
Narragansett Town Beach is unfriendly or unwelcoming to non-residents,
this is absolutely untruthful, said Parks and Recreation Director Michelle Cursant.
Insinuating involves a kind of figurative bending or curving around your meaning.
You introduce something, an idea, an accusation, a point of view, without saying it directly.
The winding path is visible in the words etymology.
Insinuate comes from the Latin verb sinuare, meaning to bend or curve,
which in turn comes from the Latin noun sinus, meaning curve.
The influence of the Latin word sinus is visible elsewhere,
too, in the mathematical terms sine and cosine,