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suggestive

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1. suggestive - Adjective

2. suggestive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. Agnes Repplier

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Carl Jung

Inevitably linked with the moment of climax, there is a minor rupture suggestive of death; and conversely the idea of death may play a part in setting sensuality in motion. Georges Bataille

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions. Sam Harris

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. George Szell

With adolescence, Pryn had certainly taken on the sometimes troubling knowledge that almost anything with an outside and an inside supporting movement from one to the other could be sexually suggestive. Samuel R. Delany

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