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• His reply was strongly suggestive of a forthcoming challenge to the governor.From the entry strongly
• She tried to sully her rival’s reputation with a suggestive comment.From the entry sully
• The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.From the entry titillate
• Mutsuki is a brat that like to be suggestive with sensei.2023 December 25, @megamega171, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2024. From the entry mesugaki
• Foci of fat on MRI are strongly suggestive of this diagnosis.2018, Crombé A, Loarer FL, Alberti N, Buy X, Stoeckle E, Cousin S, Toulmonde M, Coindre JM, Italiano A, Kind M, “Homogeneous myxoid…. From the entry myxoid
• The fish also exhibited contractures of the pectoral fins and abnormal eye positioning suggestive of extropia.2015 June 8, Melanie May et al., “ZC4H2, an XLID gene, is required for the generation of a specific subset of CNS interneurons”, in Human…. From the entry extropia
• We are striving tooth and nail to kill anything remotely suggestive of the hulas of ancient Hawaii.2012 November 29, Christine Skwiot, The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i. From the entry tooth and nail
• There is onychodystrophy suggestive of onychomycosis affecting four of his nine toenails.2011, Rachael Morris-Jones, Ann-Marie Powell, Emma Benton, 100 Cases in Dermatology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry onychodystrophy
• Use the channel flicker if TV shows or commercials are too suggestive or show too much skin.1992, Johnson, Greg; Yorkey, Mike, "Daddy's home" : a practical guide for maximizing the most important hours of your day, page 112. From the entry channel flicker
• Shimkin made 18 suggestive comparisons between Aleut and Chukotan (Chukchi, Kamchadal, Koryak).1976, Thomas A. Sebeok, editor, Native languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 231. From the entry Chukotan
• Moonglade and sunglade on ocean or lake have a haunting and suggestive beauty.1913, Advance, volume 98, page 232. From the entry moonglade
• The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.1913, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 281. From the entry insalivate
• The evidence we have for the KT impactor is more suggestive of asteroids than comets, but it’s not conclusive.2021 February 15, Becky Ferreira, quoting William F. Bottke, “Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?”, in The New York Times…. From the entry kt
• This is suggestive that financial clout is a more determining factor in trade policy outcomes than voting power.2009, Georges De Menil, Richard Portes, Hans-Werner Sinn, Economic Policy 53, page 103. From the entry determining
• Sheep were reported to have shorter telomeres suggestive of premature aging while cattle had either age-appropriate or longer telomeres.2007, Peter Sutovsky, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, page 78. From the entry telomere
• After all, its encore introduced some new musical elements, including a pulse faintly suggestive of an Afro-Cuban tumbao.2007 February 12, Nate Chinen, “A Flamenco Master Is His Own Ensemble”, in New York Times. From the entry tumbao
• At the next service he found a flower on his hassock and a highly suggestive Catholic bookmarker tucked into his hymn-book.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 357. From the entry hassock
• This is guarded against by taking precautions that the body is not touched in any way suggestive of familiarity.1953, Ellis Arthur Stephens, Lawless youth. From the entry homosexualism
• What is suggestive about both positions, for present purposes, is that modernism and the avant-garde are understood as belonging to a common history of supersession.2013, Peter Brooker, “General Introduction: Modernity, Modernisms, Magazines”, in Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian…. From the entry chicken or egg
• Boards of Canada also pioneered the hauntological approach to creating old-timey and elegiac atmospheres through the use of sound treatments suggestive of decay and wear-and-tear.2011, Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 331. From the entry hauntological
• In fact, ATP levels in clones were not dimished; rather they were not controlled as per normal development, suggestive of nucleus cytoplasm misinteraction.2004, Silvia Garagna, Mouse Genetics After the Mouse Genome, page 276. From the entry misinteraction
• His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces.2003, Elliot Gertel, Over the Top Judaism, page 62. From the entry fourteenish
• My arguments will vary in strength and appeal, but I hope that they are usefully suggestive and present at the minimum a hypothesis worth entertaining.1994, Ken Dowden, “The Roman Audience of the Golden Ass”, in James Tatum, editor, The Search for the Ancient Novel, Baltimore, Md.…. From the entry intraordinary
• The spiny joints, somewhat suggestive of superferocious chestnut burrs, become detached by a mere touch — often from a gently stirring breeze.1941, American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Magazine, Incorporated, Natural History, The American Museum of Natural History…. From the entry superferocious
• Certain unscrupulous individuals grow rich through the manufacture and distribution of suggestive postcards, obscene steriopticon views, and inexcusable books and typewritten pamphlets.1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 200. From the entry stereopticon
• Kipling, whose suggestive short cuts in style are worthy the study of any writer, is sometimes rather obscure by reason of overcompression.1913, Carl Henry Grabo, The Art of the Short Story, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 230-231. From the entry overcompression
• Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs.1906, Mabel Osgood Wright, The Garden, You, and I. From the entry cosey
• Famed lensman Richardson shot the campaign for the past three years, and drew criticism for depicting uber-skinny female models in body-baring clothing with male models in suggestive positions.2013 October 29, Stephanie Smith, “Equinox ditches Terry Richardson’s sexy ads”, in Page Six, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2013. From the entry lensman
• The patient may have cervical lymphadenopathy, trismus (moderate to severe increases suggestive of quinsy in acute setting), erythema of tonsils, crypt debris in tonsils or purulence of tonsils.2011, Kerryn Phelps, Craig Hassed, General Practice: The Integrative Approach, page 317. From the entry quinsy
• For Hot Lips and Poison Kiss divas: Your lips are the most suggestive, sensual erogenous zone you've got—work it, girl, and get his attention focused right where it belongs.2010, Violet Blue, Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry hot lips
• One observes the increasing percentage of unisexuality in Igbo onomastics, and it would not be surprising if such unisexuality invades the area of politically suggestive names.1993, U. D. Anyanwu, Jude C. U. Aguwa, The Igbo and the Tradition of Politics, Fourth Dimention Publishing Company Limited, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry unisexuality
• Today's orthodoxy (free market economy) is being spearheaded by the Bank and the Fund through the Structural Adjustment Programme that has a rather suggestive acronym of SAP.1992, Iqbal Jafar, The last frontier and other essays, page 143. From the entry econobabble
• "Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.1965, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 19, page 625. From the entry misrelegate
• The structure resulting is in many respects suggestive of an incipient columella, but at no stage of development is it sufficiently marked to be termed columelloid.1935, Grove, Brandon H., “Studies in Paleozoic Corals. III.-A Revision of Some Mississippian Zaphrentids”, in The American Midland…. From the entry columelloid
• It was a construction in wood, with manifold “features” suggestive of the villa, the bungalow, the chateau, the palace; it united all tastes and contravened all conventions.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 2, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, page 19. From the entry contravene
• The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton…. From the entry preprandial

Meaning of suggestive

1. adjective Tending to suggest or imply.
2. adjective Suggesting romance, sex, etc.; risqué.
3. adjective Relating to hypnotic suggestion.

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How do you use suggestive in a sentence?

Suggestive is used as an adjective. For example: “The painting is abstract, but the colors are suggestive of fruit or the Mediterranean.”

What is a short sentence with suggestive?

“His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.”

What does suggestive mean?

Suggestive means tending to suggest or imply.