An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief
(in defamation) part of an indictment or pleading making it clear that the damaging statement was intended to apply to the plaintiff, or spelling out the latent defamatory nature of apparently innocent words
Innuendo is indirect reference to something rude or unpleasant. The report was based on rumours, speculation, and innuendo. innuendoes innuendos a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly, or these remarks in general double entendre