That was when I handed her her own suit- and that's a pretty pointed hint, sir.

Andry arched his brows at the pointed hint.

Mayhew had used the palace surveillance system to observe her arrival, and he hadn't quite been able to suppress a grin as she ignored Fox's pointed hints that its presence might be unwelcome.

And leaving some of them here permanently was a pointed hint that even on Hell, StateSec could always make someone's life still more miserable . . . and leave it that way.

Despite several pointed hints from me, he stayed.

They make the decade look almost as good as it wished to - no Korea, no McCarthy, no poverty - and merely drop a couple of pointed hints that not everything was exactly as it seemed.

Hoping that Kate could figure out the truth, he started giving her decidedly pointed hints on how to break the case.

They couldn't kick me out, but they made it clear with pointed hints that I could also leave.

The Professor smiled at his pointed hint.

I took the pointed hint.