Hinting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HINTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• suggest or indicate something indirectly or covertly
• be a slight or possible indication of
NOUN:
• the act of hinting
• a slight or indirect indication or suggestion
• a very small trace of something
• a small piece of practical information or advice
ADJECTIVE:
• suggestive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to suggest indirectly

Words related to HINTING

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How to use HINTING in a sentence

• The leaves were just hinting at the change in colors.
• Soft glances and words hinting at tenderness, sighs and half-spoken appeals were all made to serve their obvious purpose.
• After all, he had attacked her only near relatives in hinting, and more than hinting, that they wished to gain possession of her wealth.
• He did not tell her that he was ill and that he feared lest he might never see her again, for he was far too careful as yet of hinting at the truth she would not understand.
• First of all he would insist upon the advantages of the Eastern trade, hinting at its superiority to the Western ocean service.
• Let us not be understood, however, as hinting that artistic qualities must be disregarded.
• In it he had begged Lord Barminster to grant him an interview on important personal business, hinting that by so doing he might avert future peril for Adrien and himself.
• I am becoming morbid, and my old indigestion is hinting and muttering.
• Long Tom went about hinting mysteriously of fortunes.
• She was grateful to him for perhaps hinting at the amantium irae, though she rejected the folly of the verse.
• But after fruitless attempts to press upon me new and impossible coats and trousers, he began to bring to light heaps of old ones, looking mysterious the while and hinting darkly.
• But the meditations of neither party consumed one twentieth part of the time that we have taken in hinting what they were.
• I really think, and had taken the liberty some time ago of hinting to Congress, that they would do well to have a diplomatic character at Lisbon.
• He takes occasion to justify his poem, by hinting its excellences in general, and paying a few modest compliments to himself, of which we shall transcribe the following lines.
• This fact is of no slight importance as an element in the hinting basis of the beliefs of uncultivated tribes.
• Holmes does not give the whole story, instead of hinting at it, for a similar tale is told at Brazenose College, and elsewhere.
• He would get so, presently, if his advisers did not stop hinting.
• He could, however, not keep himself from hinting that Oileymead was a substantial home, and that Bellfield had not as much as a straw mattress to lie upon.
• He would send a telegram to his father hinting at the great sorrow that had overtaken them, and asking him to come on at once.
• You are hinting at the possibility of a thief coming in through a reception-room window while we were somewhat noisy over our wine.
• These were hung on strings which were woven into belts and bands, the hues, shapes, sizes, and combinations of the strings hinting their general significance.
• I am only hinting at conditions of heathenism which exist.
• And you will notice that the statements made by the supposed Jeffrey to the porter, hinting at suicide, are now important evidence.
• Hinting at a removal out of the knowledge of us both.
• He at once wrote De Grasse not to determine absolutely to come to New York, hinting that it might prove more advisable to operate to the southward.
• The coming Sunday he must appear decently shod, so his mother had told him, at the same time hinting at some other than the Sunday reason.
• There is no occasion of hinting to the judicious reader that in this letter it is plain that Miss Blandy twice solemnly declares her innocence.
• From now on he could grasp the points of the stories told by the boys at school, and he would know what Johan was hinting at in his boast about the secret doings of that attic.
• But Calatinus feared, now that he was well out of the matter, to stir up an angry scene with his wife, by hinting that Agias had not been punished according to her orders.
• The old Spaniard kept hinting marriage to him each time he paid a visit to the superb villa, but he refused to be drawn into anything definite.
• I perceive that life has been bestowed upon him for purposes inscrutable to me, though dimly hinting its own justification as a warning or awful example.
• Loftus returned to New Orleans, blaming the French officials for not supporting his enterprise, and indeed hinting that they were responsible for the attack.
• He begun by hinting at the embarrassment he felt in not having the advantage, to use his own language, of what his brother Ketchum intended to say.

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