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innuendo

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–noun
1. an indirect intimation about a person or thing, 
esp. of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.  

2. Law. 
a. a paren(the)tic (作為附加說明的) explanation or specification in a pleading. 
b. (in an action for slander or libel the explanation and elucidation (說明,解釋) of the words alleged to be defamatory. 
c. the word or expression thus explained.  

slander
(口頭) 誹謗罪
libel
【律】(利用文字、圖畫等的) 誹謗(罪)

—Synonyms 
1. insinuation, imputation. (歸罪)


　
She's worked hard since then to come back -- and she has! And now, in what is perhaps [a sly nod to] the Sapphic innuendos of "Showgirls," Elizabeth is set to guest star on the sixth and final season of Showtime's groundbreaking, provocative series "The L Word," scheduled to premiere early in 2009.


。寓言
。神話
Cornucopia

。迂迴
Insinuate

。諷刺
innuendo
Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps [propositioning] her with [sophomoric] innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school [hunk] Jake.
revue 
burlesque 
rauchy & sexual, mockery by ludicrous, incongruous imitation
[American] burlesque show presented bawdy comedy, skits, and striptease acts, making gross fun of human behavior. 
caricature 
comic exaggeration, political cartoons
Landa already [borders] [on] caricature on the page.
farce 
comedy with unlikely social situation
lampoon
criticize to satire harshly
But Wilmot's seemingly charmed life took a turn for the worse when he wrote a satirical play lampooning his friend Charles II,
parody
musical imitation, exaggeration

travesty
fales representation
gross, grotesque imitation
[Bush] is a travesty.
It's a [kangaroo] court, a travesty of justice.

。格言
gnomic
She sets up a new bedroom in the [attic], moving her further away from her family and closer to the stars, and takes a job as a [janitor] at a high school, where she [tucks] her braid under a cap and pushes a [mop] alongside a gnomic old man, Purdeep (Kumar Pallana).
aphorism 
short statement expressing a piece of wisdom
Culkin never sounds as convincing [mouthing] the clever, outré aphorisms that Green intones so [airily].
apothegm 
terse, witty saying
adage 
old saying accepted as a truth
Earlier this month Eisenberg was cast as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s adaptation of Accidental Billionaires, which is set to begin shooting in October, the same month Ceremony is scheduled to start, once again proving the old Hollywood adage—you drop everything you believe in for a chance to work with David Fincher.
rudder
maxim 
concise statement of a principle, truth or rule of conduct, 座右銘是也
I fall in and out of love. As if I were double. Or triple. Or whimsical. That's a nice word. There's nothing worse than blandness. Do you have a little maxim for everything?
proverb 
folksy, widely accepted
(old) saw 
familiar saying, sometimes distorted

motto
a maxim adopted as an expression or purpose of 
often inscribed on a badge, banner
Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history
Its motto instead could be, "Girls just wanna have fun." 
The new occasion is ''School Daze,'' his scathing look at a fictitious white-financed, all-black college whose motto is ''Uplift the Race.''
truism
a self-evident, obvious truth.
but it does suggest a few [pop]-song truisms
in a lower-middle-class world of soap opera cliches and sudden passions, and given his characters dialogue that sounds like the truism[s] of the desperate.
dictum
an authoritative saying, maxim 
the ultimate expression of Tati's dictum of "democracy" within the frame.
This spoofs Alfred Hitchcock's [dictum] that Psycho (1960) had to be seen from the beginning and his insistence that no latecomers be seated ("not even the [theatre] manager's brother").
edict
a decree issued by a sovereign or authority
and why would his daughters view this as an [in]surmountable edict? 

sententious
abounding in pithy aphorisms
given to excessive moralizing, self-righteous
however, it threatens to slump into the [sententious], and that is what happens here. 

。真假
ostensible
an ostensible cheerfulness [concealing] sadness. 
the ostensible [truth] of their theories. 
[Ostensibly] a commentary on modern life and the homogenization of urban culture
facade 
a mentally unstable acquaintance who sees through the [facade] the Wheelers have constructed for themselves,
With cruel words and merciless observations, he chops through their [facade] and mocks their delusions.
specious
apparently good or right though lacking real merit
even if they seemed like [specious] rationalizations for outrageous cinematic torture during a good deal of the running time.
casuistry: specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, esp. in questions of morality

verisimilitude
having (merely) the appearance of truth
The play [lacked] verisimilitude.
While one shouldn't look for [veri]similitude in a high school comedy
Tech credits all strongly but unobtrusively contribute to the sense of [period] verisimilitude.
Real Manhattan locations from Limelight night club to the Port Authority Bus Terminal [add] to the verisimilitude.
The scene, though, is taken almost word-for-word from a speech that Patton delivered on June 4, 1944. It's just one example of the verisimilitude that gives the film its superb [texture].
The fight sequences were filmed on roller skates with a hand-held camera, adding a realism that strengthens the film's verisimilitude.
veritable
Mendes looks more than ever a [veri]table [chameleon] among directors as he stages the action here -- and nonaction -- with vigor and smarts. But his very [caginess],
Even Merle Travis, a veritable [god] among guitar players but an anonymous figure to most filmgoers, got a memorable scene and song ("Re-Enlistment Blues") out of the film.
cf. voracious
veracious
Impugn means to "challenge the truth or integrity of something," "to attack its [veracity]",
veracity
habitual observance of truth in speech or statement, truthfulness
impugn, challenge the truth or integrity of something, attack its veracity.
Impugn means to "challenge the truth or integrity of something," "to attack its [veracity]",
Working with a small group of law students recruited from his classes, Dershowitz presents sufficient new evidence to cast doubt as to Claus' guilt and the veracity of the star witness, her maid.

oneiric
of or pertaining to dreams
The artistic direction is meticulous and inspired; there’s a vanguard [oneiric] look to the film. 









Innuendo