All 14 Uses of
imply
in
The House of Mirth
- As a spectator, he had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intimacy which her proposal implied.†
Chpt 1.1
- "I didn't mean to imply that you are as hard put to it as that.†
Chpt 1.1
- Miss Bart was not familiar with the moral code of bachelors' flat-houses, and her colour rose again as it occurred to her that the woman's persistent gaze implied a groping among past associations.†
Chpt 1.1
- In Lily's set this conduct implied a sympathetic comprehension of her motives, and Mr. Gryce rose in her esteem as she saw the consideration he inspired.†
Chpt 1.4
- She settled herself at the desk, and Mrs. Trenor accepted her resumption of the morning's task with a sigh which implied that, after all, she had proved herself unfit for higher uses.†
Chpt 1.7
- I could have TOLD Judy," he repeated, exulting in the implied superiority over his wife.†
Chpt 1.7
- The look put the finishing touch to what her silence implied.†
Chpt 1.8
- Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness.†
Chpt 1.10
- "The Lily we know," he corrected; and his cousin, beaming at the implied understanding, exclaimed joyfully: "I'll tell her that!†
Chpt 1.12
- His habitual manner had an absent-minded kindliness which she accepted, and was grateful for, as the liveliest sentiment her presence was likely to inspire; but she was quick to feel in him a change implying that for once she could give pleasure as well as receive it.†
Chpt 1.14
- "That's the next stage: the desire to imply that one has been to Europe, and has a standard.†
Chpt 1.14
- She spoke with the intention of making him see that, if his words implied a tentative allusion to her private affairs, she was prepared to meet and repudiate it.
Chpt 1.15 *implied = suggested
- He saw instead, to his surprise, Ned Silverton loitering somewhat ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposure of the footlights, though it might have seemed to imply that all peril was over, served rather to deepen Selden's sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.3
- "I have told you I don't blame you; all I ask you to understand is that, after the use Bertha chose to make of me—after all that her behaviour has since implied—it's impossible that you and I should meet."†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence