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1797.  Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, 10 Jan. My eyes are heavy and sleepy, and my brain unsuggestive.

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1866.  Mark Lemon, F. Lyle, II. 198. A single cup and saucer,… a diminutive teapot!—so unsuggestive of the pleasant gossip with which ‘taking tea’ is generally associated.

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1900.  Daily News, 23 Feb., 5/1. The design was unsuggestive of date.

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  Hence Unsuggestiveness.

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1858.  Househ. Words, XIX. 181/2. An expression of countenance which boded no good. It was a combination of aggression and pronounced patience, with a dogged unsuggestiveness.

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