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suggestive as in: PG-13 due to suggestive content
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The movie was rated PG-13 for some suggestive content.
suggestive = sexual
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She wore a suggestive outfit to the party that drew a lot of attention.suggestive = tending to bring sex to mind
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I'd taken a seat on the corner of his unmade bed. I wasn't trying to be suggestive or anything; I just got kind of tired when I had to stand a lot. (source)suggestive = bring sex to mind
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I have heard that Sanaubar's suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries of infidelity. (source)suggestive = bringing sex to mind
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Officers leered at the naked women and made crude comments and suggestive threats. (source)suggestive = sexual
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But most give me little smirks and eye one another suggestively. (source)suggestively = in a way that brings sex to mind
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Perhaps the incident is not worth recording [ Josiah wrote], as there is really no way of getting upon paper the suggestiveness it had to a witness......The flash of old sentiment was startling from its utter unexpectedness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It was so pleasant to sit there looking up at her, as she lifted now one book and then another from the shelves, fluttering the pages between her fingers, while her drooping profile was outlined against the warm background of old bindings, that he talked on without pausing to wonder at her sudden interest in so unsuggestive a subject.† (source)unsuggestive = not tending to bring to mindstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsuggestive means not and reverses the meaning of suggestive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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It was someone who wore nothing that could be construed as suggestive. (source)suggestive = sexy
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A guy whistles suggestively. (source)suggestively = in a way that brings sex to mind
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Hudnall's giant body lay, half nude, in grotesque and terrible suggestiveness.† (source)
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I don't know that there would have been much more communication had our mother lived—though she did tell me never to wear "pointy bras"; they were "too suggestive." (source)suggestive = sexy (bringing sex to mind)
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After that the boys stopped coming to our street, but one of the small boys who played with Atal would call out suggestively, "How is Haroon?" whenever I passed by. (source)suggestively = implying there was a romantic relationship
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Drew turned up the well-bred charm and turned down the suggestiveness as soon as we walked into the house.† (source)
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suggestive as in: imagery is suggestive of loss
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The poem’s imagery is suggestive of loneliness and loss.
suggestive = tends to bring to mind
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Her silence was suggestive of deeper concerns she wasn’t ready to share.suggestive = tending to suggest or imply
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Then with the finely attuned senses of his brotherhood, the Count noticed something suggestive out of the corner of his eye. (source)suggestive = suggesting an idea
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The little stories of the strangled rabbit and the young boy and girl he lured into a cave were most suggestive......'I can make them hurt if I want to......' (source)suggestive = indicative of the idea that
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He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother's, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness. (source)suggestive = suggesting or indicating
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He compiled lists of old words too — words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in today's world, or toady's world, as Jimmy sometimes deliberately misspelled it on his term papers. (source)suggestiveness = suggesting ideas
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The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical.... Its forms are bold and suggestive. (source)
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