Definition of "hinting" []

• Present participle of hint. (verb)

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• "He called his book Born of the Desert—the title hinting at the great things he had hoped to bring forth from the arid California valley stretching west from the Colorado River nearly to the Pacific shore."
• "One wonders how much contextual hinting is required."
• "Jimmy Carter is absolutely correct, in hinting that there she will not be on Barack's ticket."