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Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker. Walter M. Miller, Jr.
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village. Shirley Jackson
A lifetime of blows tends to make a person unenthusiastic about any unnecessary interchange that might lead to more. Nothing friendly has been said or even hinted at and much hostility has been shown. Phædrus the wolf. It fits. Robert M. Pirsig
It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here. Patricia Briggs
she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud. Michael Ondaatje