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SUGGESTIVELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suggestively mean?
• SUGGESTIVELY (adverb)
The adverb SUGGESTIVELY has 1 sense:
1. in a suggestive manner
Familiarity information: SUGGESTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a suggestive manner
Context example:
she smiled suggestively
Pertainym:
suggestive (tending to suggest or imply)
Context examples
"Couldn't you do it now?" asked Laurie, so suggestively that Jo shut the gate in his face with inhospitable haste, and called through the bars, "Go away, Teddy, I'm busy."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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