sly suggestion
Example Sentences
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But readers are advised to treat lightly her sly suggestion that she is like Hilaire Belloc's artless water beetle who If she ever stopped to think Of how she did it, she would sink.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was a sly suggestion which John understood.
From The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands by Finlay, Roger Thompson
In the last sentence there is a sly suggestion of Lowell's playfulness.
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by Lowell, James Russell
