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A hint dressed up in enough facts to dodge responsibility for being wrong.
means A sign or piece of evidence that points toward something without fully proving it.
from From Latin indicare, 'to point out' or 'proclaim' — built from in- ('toward') plus dicare, 'to proclaim' (a relative of dicere, 'to say'). The same root gives us 'dictate' and 'verdict.' So an indication is literally an act of pointing something out in words — the Romans already knew it was a way of gesturing at truth without quite swearing to it.
- legal cousin
- weaker than proof, stronger than a guess
- medical use
- tells doctors when a drug is appropriate
- root word
- from Latin indicare, to point out
- favorite habitat
- forecasts, diagnoses, and vague corporate memos