All 6 Uses of
imply
in
Tender is the Night
- With the ensuing success and the promise of comparative stability that followed, Mrs. Speers had felt free to tacitly imply tonight: "You were brought up to work—not especially to marry.†
Chpt 1.9
- Dick started—had he said anything to imply that she possessed any part of him?†
Chpt 1.15
- ...half expecting him to imply that Miss Warren's attitude was pathological.
Chpt 2.7 *imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- The impertinence, the right to invade implied, astounded him.†
Chpt 2.9
- To meet her starry-eyed confidence he mustered an insincere pantomime implying, "You would turn up here—of all the people in the world."†
Chpt 2.19
- It's something serious—the agent wouldn't tell me; he kept saying 'pas de mortes—pas d'automobiles' but he implied it was just about everything else.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence