suggestively

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Then we get Ms. Morris’s marvelous painting of a solitary godwit in a suggestively tarnished sky.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

In his novella “The Turn of the Screw,” the connection between the supernatural and the psychological is allowed to suggestively simmer.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

In the episode, which aired on Tuesday, Giuliani alleges that "SNL" “got intimidated of saying anything that might be suggestively racist,” which, he says, is racist “in itself.”

From Salon • May 5, 2024

In Sargent’s painting, from 1881, Pozzi poses in a blood-red robe; he is full-bearded, but subtly and suggestively androgynous.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

"Well, if I should go it," said Baptiste suggestively.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar