insinuate

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
insinuate /ɪnˈsɪnjʊeɪt/

▶verb

• 1 suggest (something bad) in an indirect and unpleasant way.

• 2 (insinuate oneself into) manoeuvre oneself gradually into (a favourable position).

• 3 slide slowly and smoothly into a place.

– derivatives
insinuating adjective,
insinuatingly adverb,
insinuator noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘enter a document on the official register’): from L. insinuat-, insinuare ‘introduce tortuously’, from in- ‘in’ + sinuare ‘to curve’.