Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

innuendo

[Latin "by hinting"] 1. An oblique remark or indirect suggestion, usu. of a derogatory nature. 2. An explanatory word or passage inserted parenthetically into a legal document. ( In criminal law, an innuendo takes the form of a statement in an indictment showing the application or meaning of matter previously expressed, the meaning of which would not otherwise be clear. In the law of defamation, an innuendo is the plaintiff's explanation of a statement's defamatory meaning when that meaning is not apparent from the statement's face. For example, the innuendo of the statement "David burned down his house" can be shown by pleading that the statement was understood to mean that David was defrauding his insurance company (the fact that he had insured his house is pleaded and proved by inducement). Cf. INDUCEMENT (4); COLLOQUI-UM.