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Definition
to suggest or say indirectly — possibly as a logical consequence- She wouldn't make a direct statement, but she implied that she supported our position.
implied = hinted or suggested
- She implied that she would vote with us.
- Does the high value of gold imply inflation expectations?
- But how can it face the one sin that implies all others?David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- I don't like what she's implying.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- I mean, he used sexy and Duffy — implying I was fat and ugly — in the same sentence.Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
- Sometimes he came across his photographs, in textbooks or hanging on the walls of private offices or homes, and he was startled by their cold beauty, their technical precision—sometimes, even, by the hungry searching that their emptiness implied.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby — one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- What could I say, how could I phrase it, without implying that it was his bomb that killed Prim?Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs?John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- Not without a sort of joy indeed he might have appreciated the brave opinion of him implied in his Captain's making such a confidant of him.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- he put out his hand, as if to imply that the conversation was closed.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- [Miss Ratched:] "No, Billy, I wasn't implying anything."Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- I don't add, "And you can't come because you're too loud." But it's implied. He would both scare off prey and endanger me with his heavy tread.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- You seemed to me to imply that with me you might have been quite another man.Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House
- His tone implied something more than mere hopefulness or resolution.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- In another moment, a forefinger might thrust to the sidewalk grille, implying...Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- ...half expecting him to imply that Miss Warren's attitude was pathological.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- ...the dull, absent look on Fifi's face implies more...Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- "You act like you don't believe I can do it."
"I didn't say that."
"You implied it."Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
implied = hinted or suggested (without saying it directly)
imply = suggest (say through logical consequence)
implies = suggests
implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
implying = saying indirectly
implied = showed indirectly
implied = said indirectly (said it without using such blunt words)
implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
imply = say indirectly (that there is)
implied = shown (indirectly as a logical consequence)
imply = communicate the idea without saying it directly that
implying = saying indirectly
implied = said indirectly
imply = suggest
implied = suggested
implying = saying indirectly (by the gesture)
imply = suggest (say indirectly)
implies = says indirectly
implied = said indirectly
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