How to Use innuendo in a Sentence

innuendo

noun
  • The movie relies on sexual innuendo for its humor.
  • His reputation has been damaged by innuendos about his drinking and gambling.
  • His reputation has been damaged by innuendo.
  • Like, there's an innuendo in there.
    — Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t a time for innuendo or to allow room to be read between the lines.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Keaton has a cookie that looks like a breast — lots of innuendo and puns follow.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Jed's going through it right now with all the rumors and innuendos.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 23 July 2019
  • But in many ways, the plot comes second to the silly jokes, innuendos, and songs.
    — Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 27 Dec. 2025
  • There was a price to pay for any teen who played the song, though not because of its not-that-subtle innuendo.
    — Ariela Kozin, Billboard, 26 May 2017
  • But that hasn’t stopped the finger-pointing, the blame games, the innuendo.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But those of us who love athletics are tired of the cloud of doubt and innuendo that has hung over our records for too long.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Amid a toxic mix of misery, fear and racist innuendo, too many people have been ready to lash out.
    — Helen Zia, Time, 23 July 2021
  • Just attack and make all kinds of innuendo and attacks with no substance.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • Our court systems are not created to deal with things like this, these innuendoes.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
  • Guests at this weekend's shows can expect lots of teasing and innuendo — and, yep, lots of skin as the evening wears on.
    — Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Strong claims need strong proof, not rumors and innuendo on Twitter.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The frantic churning of hearsay and innuendo about bad guys who, being bad guys, must have been doing bad things.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Rodger Dohm is a victim of rumor and innuendo.
    — Dan Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • Erik did not directly address the show’s innuendo that the brothers were lovers.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
  • There’s has been a lot of innuendo; talk of wrong directions and disharmony.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The tone is right, the innuendo is pitch-perfect, and the observation at the heart of the sketch is painfully apt.
    — Matthew Love, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2021
  • There's no explicit innuendo in the film.
    — Devonne Goode, Parents, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The world of Pee-wee is full of this loopy surrealism that could veer into innuendo but never got dark.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the innuendo about the next major contest was already flying among Democrats.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Jill Vogel pulled out her angry air guitar and played a greatest hits of racial and gender innuendo.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The off-the-field stuff has become much more front and center because of the internet and all the rumor and innuendo that flies around.
    — John Altavilla, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The show's handlers let innuendo and suggestive jokes do the dirty work, instead, and the restraint does the show a lot of favors.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
  • And that’s why some of the innuendo from Apple was a little annoying, from our standpoint.
    — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 12 June 2019
  • But those searching for innuendo might have heard a splash of kerosene on the flames of the Bears-Packers rivalry.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • For this event, Love Island has dispensed with the innuendos and just gone for a straightforward kink theme.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 18 June 2025

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