All 6 Uses of
imply
in
The Age of Innocence
- Mrs. Archer murmured, in a tone that implied: "She had that decency."†
Chpt 5 *
- What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside?†
Chpt 9
- Are there painters in New York?" asked Beaufort, in a tone implying that there could be none since he did not buy their pictures; and Madame Olenska said to Archer, with her grave smile: "That would be charming.†
Chpt 12
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith.†
Chpt 26
- "On business?" she asked, in a tone which implied that there could be no other conceivable reason, and that she had put the question automatically, as if merely to finish his own sentence.†
Chpt 26
- It was just like Ellen, Mrs. Welland's tired voice implied, to place the family in such a dilemma.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence