Insinuate

From Latin Ä«nsinuÅ ("to push in, creep in, steal in"), from in ("in") + sinus ("a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom")

Full definition of insinuate

(rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

WoodwardThe water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.

(figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.

1995, Terry Pratchett, , p. 242Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
John LockeAll the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
DrydenHorace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
ClarendonHe insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.

To hint; to suggest tacitly while avoiding a direct statement.She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

(Make a way for or introduce something by subtle, crafty or artful means.): imply