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noun

a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.

a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked.

Origin:
1505–15; obsolete inkle to hint (Middle English inklen) + -ing¹; akin to Old English inca suspicion

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Example Sentences

The first inkling of financial difficulties in here surfaced in the chow hall.

Punters typically have no inkling of where their meal was caught.

But the inspector's sixth sense went off, and he had the inkling that something wasn't legitimate about the deal.

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The first inkling of financial difficulties in here surfaced in the chow hall.

Punters typically have no inkling of where their meal was caught.

But the inspector's sixth sense went off, and he had the inkling that something wasn't legitimate about the deal.

But otherwise you have no inkling that the face is there, even though your left eye has been staring at it for many minutes.

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But it's a safe bet that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of employees saw some red flags or had an inkling that something was awry.

Yet it stretches credulity for the party to say that it had no inkling.

Gorman seems to have spent his last seven days as if he had some inkling of what was to come.

But other investors have an inkling that many big programs will eventually be written the open-source way.

The lyrics are full of noble sentiment, if occasionally touched by an inkling of longing or romantic disappointment.

Schumpeter had an inkling of this process but did not go far enough.

Eisner has given an inkling about what his next chapter as a business executive will.

He was also invited to departmental meetings, so he had some inkling of what was going on in the department.

And when he did, he had no inkling how big his pet project would get, he said.

Inkling consists of a special ink pen and a detector device which digitizes anything.

No one with an inkling of the amount of art being produced can fail to appreciate the heroism of such an effort.

Candidates should have some inkling of who is on the committee and what the campus/department/school are like.

Unless you had seen it, you would have no inkling of what had taken place during the night.

Brindel said his first inkling of the attack was a warning cry from a sailor posted above as a lookout.

So, from the first inkling of an idea until submission can be a year or two for me.

It was the cipher of a child, giving no real inkling of what could drive someone so young to suicide.

Inkling consists of a special ink pen and a detector device which digitizes.

Riley said they had no inkling that he had been involved in the attack or was being investigated by the authorities for murder.

Haussler and some colleagues had an inkling that the convergence of information technology and biology would be crucial.

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inkling (ˈɪŋklɪŋ)

—n
	a slight intimation or suggestion; suspicion

[C14: probably from inclen to hint at; related to Old English inca]

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Word Origin & History

inkling

c.1400, apparently from the gerund of M.E. verb inclen "utter in an undertone" (mid-14c.), which perhaps is related to O.E. inca "doubt, suspicion."

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"Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude."

-Friedrich Von Schlegel

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