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a slight indication, suggestion, or understanding

he had no inkling what was about to happen

Can you give me an inkling of how much this will cost?
The Pole worked as fiercely as ever and seemed to have no inkling that he was about to be fired.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
CHAPTER XLII When Charles left Ducie Street he had caught the first train home, but had no inkling of the newest development until late at night.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
If there had been anything particularly grand in his origin—if he were made of some superior clay—I presume I should have got some inkling of it.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
I sat there for several minutes with my head bowed before the inkling of a good idea came to me.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
"I mean, don't you have any inkling of the reasons for all this?" asked Ford.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
But they should at least give him some inkling of just how hard a struggle it is and how much work it is for me to defend him.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
He had no inkling what this meant.
George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
It will take ages to restore, and they've no inkling that we're already making use of it.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
Although she had some inkling of the course Stewart and his men were to pursue, she was not by any means prepared for the indifference she saw.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Right then, in that too-long beat of silence, I got the first inkling that something was wrong.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
Never, little Miles—no, never—have you given me an inkling of anything that MAY have happened there.
Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
When a poor man is to lose his only child, he likes to have an inkling of it beforehand.
Henry James -- Washington Square
I don't think He has the least inkling of that high and austere mystery to which we rise in the Miserific Vision.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
Few of us have any inkling of the sense of the rite of baptism, which was our initiation into our Church.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
It isn't until later that night that Connor gets an inkling of how much Lev has truly changed.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
Yet it was the French Revolution that gave us the first inklings of feminism.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
And nobody had an inkling about — about the other things, so you mustn't worry.'
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
Dany had no inkling why anyone would call him Frog.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons

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