The word "bespeak" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "to indicate or to suggest something indirectly". For example: The party decorations bespeak a festive atmosphere.
These bespeak a national yearning for perfection, bodily and otherwise.Sensitive China, perfidious AlbionSome Chinese euphemisms also stem from squeamishness.
But Jim Mulcahy, a retired priest now ministering to gays in Ukraine, thinks the anti-gay lobby's resources and multimedia techniques bespeak American involvement.Both Paul Cameron, an American psychologist who likens homosexuality to drug use, and Mr Lively, have toured eastern Europe.
The silver tea service and strains of Chopin bespeak a bygone era.
Their serious looks and the gap between them bespeak a political distance that she did not want to hide.The location of this exhibition is appropriate at a time when US-German relations are tense.
THE pound stores, factory seconds shops, bookies and boarded-up windows around Stoke-on-Trent railway station do not bespeak a thriving city.
Others, in their sheer range, bespeak America's diversity.
The architectural plans, sketches and furniture around her bespeak her patronage of the arts; the song sheets and plays are those she performed in amateur theatricals at court; the elaborate dresses are her own creations.
It is adjacent to excess, enjoyment of it may bespeak shallowness, and those who possess it are often undeserving.
That, too, would bespeak a new German attitude to the world.
His demeanour and record bespeak conscientiousness.
They bespeak the general tendency of the city to move westward.
