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suggestively

/suhg-jes-tiv, suh-/US // səgˈdʒɛs tɪv, sə- //UK // (səˈdʒɛstɪv) //

暗示性地,暗示性的,提示性地,暗示性地提出

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
    • : rich in suggestions or ideas: a suggestive critical essay.
    • : evocative; presented partially rather than in detail.
    • : that suggests or implies something improper or indecent; risqué; suggestive remarks.

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Examples

  • It might sound suggestive, but it’s merely an area densely packed with stars, and they often contain supermassive blackholes inside.

  • We may never know how much money was given to fraudsters, but the early cases are suggestive.

  • The differences aren’t statistically significant, but there’s a pretty suggestive trend.

  • When a former Westview High School student recently posted an online petition in which she published sexually suggestive text messages she said a teacher there sent her in 2015, not long after she’d graduated, the episode felt a bit familiar.

  • I watched this as a kid and was unfazed by how objectively suggestive this movie was.

  • Ebah, speaking from his home in the camp, said suggestively, “There are signs of a big thing on the horizon.”

  • Other stories suggestively conflated “It was dark” with “He was dark.”

  • Several of them make direct eye contact with Tompkins while others gesture suggestively toward their crotches.

  • Is she posing suggestively to mimic the idealized figures behind her?

  • His figurative works feature women stretched suggestively across cotton-candy clouds, or dripping in melted ice cream.

  • Lamb stopped rattling the coins in his pocket suggestively, kept them there, and strolled toward the main entrance.

  • "And yet I have imagined that you knew her pretty well, and that Mr. Roscoe knew her even better—perhaps," she said suggestively.

  • Crozier remarked dryly, yet suggestively, in his desire to see how much Sibley knew.

  • And then he remembered the porter, who stood suggestively attentive, words of gratitude hanging on his lips.

  • The young man looked at the other young man down in the shop, and tapped his finger on his forehead suggestively.