insinuate

1. (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.Examples: "1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks"rare

2. (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.Examples: "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."broadlyfiguratively