half-insinuating

Updated: May 5, 2025

Clapp; in a sort of half-cunning, half-insinuating manner. "I do not in the least doubt the ability of many men, sir, to distort actions equally innocent." "But you acknowledge the fact?" "The fact that I locked up a drunken sailor, I certainly acknowledge; and you will find me ready to acknowledge any other fact equally true."

Susan Fenimore Cooper - Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2