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hintedly

hintedly adverb: expressed or implied by means of hints.

Adverb

hintedly (not comparable)

  1. Expressed or implied by means of hints.
    • She always tells a story, however hintedly and vaguely; […]1843, Monthly literary register, The Monthly magazine (page 479)
    • […] a hintedly homosexual couple […]2023, Aslı Tekinay, A Holistic Perspective on Harold Pinter's Drama, page 71

Origin of hintedly

From hinted + -ly.

Questions about hintedly

What does hintedly mean?
Hintedly means expressed or implied by means of hints.
What part of speech is hintedly?
Hintedly is an adverb.

Words near hintedly in the dictionary

  1. Hinsons
  2. Hinstock
  3. hint
  4. hintable
  5. hinted
  6. hintedly
  7. hintend
  8. hintends
  9. hinter
  10. hinterland
  11. hinterlander

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