suggest
My boss hinted that I'm being considered for promotion.
The minister hinted that he was about to resign.
They've been hinting at the possibility of launching a take-over bid.
Sometimes it's better to hint at the truth rather than state it directly.
The report hinted at the likely outcome.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suggestions & proposals
about
bounce something off someone
can't
co-sponsor
co-sponsorship
drop
if you take my meaningidiom
make noisesidiom
maybe
move
mover
nod
nomination
on the tableidiom
proposition
put ideas into someone's headidiom
put someone to somethingidiom
put something in
put something up
resubmission

Examples of hinted

hinted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Their impact for the local level, however, has been all but hinted at.
But there is another possible starting point, hinted at by the phenomenon of molecular imprinting.
Many studies have hinted, a posteriori, that this may not be the case.
Nonetheless, the disproportionate significance of large parasites is further hinted at by comparison with the 2 simpler models lacking the small-large parasite distinction.
Each song draws the listener into an image of femininity while threatening assumptions hinted at in the lyrics.
This article has hinted strongly at the direction in which the response to these questions might go.
Some hinted at having experimented with salutary argument.
Another minor criticism, already hinted at above, is that not all the papers address the theme of the book.
The significance of such overlaps has been hinted at in recent studies on urban public spaces.
He hinted that these motions would never be accessible to confirmation by means of direct sense data.
One study hinted that the act was failing to redistribute rented housing more rationally.
The first is already hinted at and concerns the uncertainty dimension.
A world-view, then, is hinted at already here.
This was not a plot line at which any of the secondary critical literature had even hinted.
A few months later, they reneged on this acceptance, and accusations and hinted threats of bewitchment were traded between them and the chief.
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