in-sinuating

Updated: May 16, 2025

From beneath the sternly and too starched white shirtwaist and the unwilted linen cravat wound high about her throat and sustained there with a rhinestone horseshoe, it was as if a wave of color had started deep down, rushing up under milky flesh into her hair. "Is that meant to be an in-sinuating remark, Josie?" "'Tain't how it's meant; it's how it's took."

Fannie Hurst - Gaslight Sonatas