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tending to bring to mind(When the thing brought to mind is not clear from context, it is often sex.)
- He was walking up a cobbled street of little two-story houses with battered doorways which gave straight on the pavement and which were somehow curiously suggestive of ratholes.George Orwell -- 1984
suggestive = tending to bring to mind
- A short, suggestive silence follows, and then the connection is cut.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- The picture you have just drawn is suggestive of a rather too overwhelming contrast.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- "What—" said Dawes, suggestively.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- Oh, I admit that the chain of evidence—the coincidences—are really suggestive.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- George showed up in the Health Room, and Sukeena immediately began dancing in a most fluid, provocative and suggestive manner.Stephen King -- Rose Red
- They lack suggestive power.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- Suggestively, I lifted my hands, bound together at the wrists.Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
- The guy eyes me up and down suggestively before opening the door.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- Despite his best efforts, he couldn't stop thinking about Katie's earlier suggestive remark.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- But there is one analogy which is-well, suggestive and helpful.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- To Philip her smile was an abominable leer, and the suggestive glitter of her eyes filled him with horror.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- Officers leered at the naked women and made crude comments and suggestive threats.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- A hint of a shared conspiracy touched the corners of his lips, something too suggestive to go unnoticed by Pearl.Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
- Now the look the guard gave Zeitoun was suggestive, even lewd.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- A more suggestive comment could hardly have been made.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- High sprays of foam tossed into the air and the wind was heavy with the damp, suggestive smell offish.Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer
- They saw the robin carry food to his mate two or three times, and it was so suggestive of afternoon tea that Colin felt they must have some.Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
- Again that chuckle, more defined and louder but still somehow intimate and suggestive, a chuckle that said, I know something you don't know.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- The archers grinned suggestively; the men laughed again.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
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