Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner that is not
suggestive .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
unsuggestive + -ly
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unsuggestively.
Examples
-
The knight in his poem -- who bears not unsuggestively the name of "Sir Walter" -- has outstripped all his companions, like Fitz James, and is the only one in at the death.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
-
Far more attention has been paid to this ruthless fanatic—unsuggestively reprised by Cormac McCarthy as Anton Chigurh, in “No Country for Old Men”—than to Verloc, the harried, soft, pithless entity who is the novel’s actual protagonist.
MORNING WOOD: CAREY AND KUNZRU TEV 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.