All 10 Uses of
suggestive
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- From the lower part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy.†
Chpt 1
- "It was most suggestive," said Holmes.†
Chpt 3
- I can never bring you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.†
Chpt 3 *
- The point about the signature is very suggestive—in fact, we may call it conclusive.†
Chpt 3
- Then the fact that the two men were never together, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was suggestive.†
Chpt 3
- It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive.†
Chpt 4
- You have no further evidence, I suppose, than that which you have placed before us—no suggestive detail which might help us?†
Chpt 5
- "It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others which represent at least a strong balance of probability.†
Chpt 7
- Ah! that is suggestive.†
Chpt 8
- Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is a suggestive one.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(suggestive) tending to bring to mind
(When the thing brought to mind is not clear from context, it is often sex.)