Rowan was not good at catching oblique hints, and terrible at following cryptic orders.

He must infer the progress of the war from maddeningly oblique hints.

Colors of White offered oblique hints ... and little more.

She couldn't say any of that, and her oblique hints weren't eliciting anything even close to the answers she sought.

Or he might just drop a few oblique hints.

An innuendo is "an oblique hint or remark"; The word is often used to express disapproval.

Are these last throwing out oblique hints touching Tophet?

Genji's reply to the emperor was an oblique hint that a royal visit would be welcomed: It is not true to its name, this Katsura.

He wanted very much to see what effect those oblique hints might have on Genji, but found no occasion.

An oblique and discreet hint if ever I heard one, Stef thought cynically.