intimation

[ UK /ˌɪntɪmˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a slight suggestion or vague understanding
    he had no inkling what was about to happen
  2. an indirect suggestion
    not a breath of scandal ever touched her
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How To Use intimation In A Sentence

  • His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.
  • But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The intimation is that such giants would likewise be serviced by global finance houses.
  • The first check to her duteous demonstrations was a formal intimation from the fallen majesty of England, that I was in no manner to be intruded upon her. II.8
  • William Jefferson, known to be less than scrupulous (the FBI found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, and the intimation is that he is connected to some shady individuals from South America), re-elected to Congress in a landslide, primarily due the rantings of the autocratic sheriff of Jefferson Parish. Think Progress » Chertoff Learned of Levee Failure 36 Hours After Mayor Nagin?
  • Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
  • That was a rightwing fiesta, including a graf coming after the summary of the Democrats response to the Prez that was an almost perfect piece of punditland dreamery, with intimations of Broder marvelously woven into it: Matthew Yglesias » Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  • There were trodden places, bent and broken blades of the coarse grass, and ever and again the sufficient intimation of a footmark. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
  • I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
  • The audible allusion is to the passage that records the sudden eruption of joy at the top of stanza IX in the "Intimations" Ode, more specifically a few lines on, when the poet says that it is not for the The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
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