hint
noun
an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue.
am hinting
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present progressiveof hint (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And yet; I do not know whether what I am hinting at cannot be set forth in plain and homely terms.
From The House of Souls by Arthur Machen
You probably belong to one of them; that’s what I am hinting at.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
Those who read these lines will hardly doubt what passion it is that I am hinting at.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
And yet; I do not know whether what I am hinting at cannot be set forth in plain and lonely terms.
From The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
