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suggestiveness

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sug·ges·tive  (sg-jstv, s-js-)
adj.
1.
a. Tending to suggest; evocative: artifacts suggestive of an ancient society.
b. Stimulating further thought: "Suggestive here is the Southern, often Western and rural locus of these tales" (Mark Muro).
c. Conveying a hint or suggestion: conveyed the message with a few suggestive words.
2. Tending to suggest something improper or indecent: a controversial song with highly suggestive lyrics.
sug·gestive·ly adv.
sug·gestive·ness n.
Translations
suggestiveness [səˈdʒestɪvnɪs] N suggestiveness and titillation are the main ingredients of these films → la insinuación y la excitación son los principales ingredientes de estas películas
the suggestiveness of the phrase → lo insinuante de la frase
suggestiveness
n → Zweideutigkeit f, → Anzüglichkeit f; the suggestiveness of her dancing → ihr aufreizendes Tanzen


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With the same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark's tooth, of his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
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It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral.
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It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
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