insinuate

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hivuttautua, ujuttautua puhekieltä To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
Woodward

The water easily insinuates itself into, and placidly distends, the vessels of vegetables.

Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.

All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.

Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.

He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.

She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.