Practice FrenchC1noun
le sous-entendu
implication, innuendo (unspoken hint)
A masculine noun — le in the singular, les in the plural.
« Sa réponse était pleine de sous-entendus que personne n’a relevés. »
“His answer was full of innuendo that nobody picked up on.”
In other languages
- Spanish insinuación, sobrentendido
- Portuguese insinuação, subentendido
- Arabic التلميح، المعنى الضمني
- German Anspielung, versteckte Andeutung
- Italian sottinteso, allusione
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