suggestive
adjective
that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc..
suggestively
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a word derived from
suggestive.
Example Sentences
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Then we get Ms. Morris’s marvelous painting of a solitary godwit in a suggestively tarnished sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In the episode, which aired on Tuesday, Giuliani alleges that "SNL" “got intimidated of saying anything that might be suggestively racist,” which, he says, is racist “in itself.”
From Salon ● May 5, 2024
Here I could follow the example of Jeff Loveness’ script and spend half this review writing suggestively around the bad guy’s identity, using ominous sub-Voldemort sobriquets like “He” and “Him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
In Sargent’s painting, from 1881, Pozzi poses in a blood-red robe; he is full-bearded, but subtly and suggestively androgynous.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
Practical books based on facts, painstakingly ascertained and suggestively compared.
From Bruce of the Circle A by Titus, Harold
