Synonyms for suggestively

Grammar : Adv

Spell : suh g-jes-tiv, suh-

Phonetic Transcription : səgˈdʒɛs tɪv, sə-

Définition of suggestively

Origin : 1630s, "conveying a hint," from suggest + -ive. Specifically as a faintly euphemistic reference to proposals of indecent behavior, from 1888. Related: Suggestively; suggestiveness.

As in obscenely : adv indecently

Example sentences :

Phil jingled them suggestively, and kept on into the restaurant.
Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson

"While we speculate the dinner cools," said Miss Maddledock suggestively.
Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg

"If you mention me in dispatches," Bones went on suggestively.
Extract from : « Bones » by Edgar Wallace

"I suppose my trunk is somewhere else," she said suggestively.
Extract from : « Jewel » by Clara Louise Burnham

"Unless we're going out to the stable," she said suggestively.
Extract from : « Jewel » by Clara Louise Burnham

“And also how to prevent others from avoiding it,” he replied, suggestively.
Extract from : « In Her Own Right » by John Reed Scott

“I am sorry, but it is not necessary,” she replied, suggestively.
Extract from : « Northern Lights » by Gilbert Parker

It is the half-formed, the perplexed, and the suggestively monstrous.
Extract from : « The Sense of Beauty » by George Santayana

"No—physical hindrance that I know of," said he suggestively.
Extract from : « Tonio, Son of the Sierras » by Charles King

Malloy closed one eye and looked at Randy suggestively with the other.
Extract from : « Randy of the River » by Horatio Alger Jr.

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