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to make an indirect reference- He alluded to Susan without mentioning her name.
alluded = indirectly referenced
- She didn't mention any names, but everyone knew she was alluding to the President.
- Where she cannot make a point with logic, she uses allusion.
- a masterpiece of alliteration and allusion
- Her allusions to her son were few and...Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- "...what shall I call them?—the Three Graces of the Dublin musical world."
The table burst into applause and laughter at this allusion.James Joyce -- Dubliners - ...there flashed upon my mind what I cannot better describe than as the unformed half of that idea of deliverance to which I have previously alluded,Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- no songs had alluded to him even in the obscurest wayJ.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- Do you allude to me, Miss Cardew, as an entanglement?Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Being Earnest
- NEVER, by a slip of the tongue, have they so much as alluded to either of their old friends,Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- The boy to whom I allude won all the marbles of the school.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
- everybody was permitted to lend him books, if they were not published in America and made no allusion to it.Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
- He has only once—quite vaguely—alluded to it.Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
- He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some allusion to a rat.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Are you alluding to anything in particular?Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
- An evening at home rarely passed without some allusion to this image, this specter, this hope.Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- The affair to which you allude was no more than a speculation.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- by which he meant snail, and this was in allusion to his being slow to go,Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- it was against all the rules of their code that the mother and son should ever allude to what was uppermost in their thoughtsEdith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
alluding = indirectly referring
allusion = indirect reference
allusions = indirect references
allusion = an indirect reference
alluded = indirectly referenced
alluded = indirectly referred
allude = to make an indirect reference
alluded = indirectly referenced
alluded = indirectly referenced
allude = indirectly reference
allusion = reference
alluded = indirectly referenced
allusion = indirect reference
alluding = making an indirect reference
allusion = indirect reference
allude = to make an indirect reference
allusion = an indirect reference
allude = refer (even indirectly)