innuendo definition

innuendo

General: Derogatory, hostile, or insulting but oblique implication of an innocent looking statement. Latin for, to hint or signal by a nod.

Defamation: In a libel case, the plaintiff's explanation to the court of the defamatory meaning of the defendant's apparently innocuous words, and of the circumstances and facts that make the words objectionable.

innuendo is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law subject.

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