tellingly
In revealing fashion
Tellingly means in a way that reveals something significant, often something hidden or unintended.
It flags that what follows is meaningful evidence: Tellingly, she didn't deny the accusation.
The word signals the speaker finds a detail particularly revealing or damning.
In a disclosing manner
- disclosingMaking information known
- exposingMaking something known
- betrayingBreaking trust or loyalty
- unmaskingRevealing what's hidden
uncovering · divulging · indicatively · symptomatically · transparently · enlightening · informative · clarifying
With significance or intent
- consequentiallyAs an important outcome
- importantlyWith great consequence
- momentouslyWith great significance
- substantiallyTo a significant degree
profoundly · decisively · critically · pivotally · weightily · materially · fundamentally · essentially
Suggesting indirectly
- implyingSuggesting without stating directly
- insinuatingIndirectly suggesting something
- alludingReferencing indirectly
- intimatingConveying indirectly
connoting · signifying · indicatively · evocatively · subtly · obliquely · indirectly · betokening
revealingly
In a disclosing manner
- disclosingMaking information known
- exposingMaking something known
- betrayingBreaking trust or loyalty
unmasking · uncovering · divulging · indicatively · symptomatically · transparently · enlightening · informative · clarifying · truthfully
meaningfully
With significance or intent
- consequentiallyAs an important outcome
- importantlyWith great consequence
- momentouslyWith great significance
substantially · profoundly · decisively · critically · pivotally · weightily · materially · fundamentally · essentially · crucially
hinting
Suggesting indirectly
- implyingSuggesting without stating directly
- insinuatingIndirectly suggesting something
- alludingReferencing indirectly
intimating · connoting · signifying · indicatively · evocatively · subtly · obliquely · indirectly · betokening · foreshadowing
- sentence startersoddly, curiously, strangely, surprisingly, remarkably
tellinglyinsignificantly
In an unimportant manner
trivially · inconsequentially · meaninglessly · unremarkably · negligibly
tellinglyinconclusively
Without definite result
evasively · cryptically · opaquely · obscurely · deceptively
tellinglyinconclusively
Without definite result
ambiguously · ineffectively · indeterminately · equivocally · unconvincingly
- fortune tellingPredicting someone's future
- telling onReporting someone's wrongdoing
- telling time
- telling it like it isSpeaking plain, unfiltered truth
- telling offVocal expression of displeasure
- telling lies