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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?
- "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 - The simple fact that he has a destination is enough for Lev. It's more than Lev has. Destination implies a future.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- In the air there was only an edge of coolness to imply the coming winter.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- But how can it face the one sin that implies all others?David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- I don't mean to imply that women should stop having children; on the contrary, nature intended them to, and that's the way it should be.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- 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
- He will have implied that his father was lost in the war. That he came home changed, too soaked in death and grief to live as an ordinary man.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- I don't like what she's implying.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- "Your maids?" he asked in a tone that implied I was an idiot.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- 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)
- What are you implying, Gershom?Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- In his will Sam Westing implied (he did not state, he implied) that (1) he was murdered, (2) the murderer was one of the heirs, (3) he alone knew the name of the murderer, and (4) the name of the murderer was the answer to the game.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- 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
- Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.George Orwell -- 1984
- What could I say, how could I phrase it, without implying that it was his bomb that killed Prim?Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- 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
implied = hinted or suggested (without saying it directly)
imply = suggest (say through logical consequence)
implied = said indirectly
implies = indirectly says there is
imply = suggest or indicate
implies = suggests
imply = suggest
implied = said indirectly (said it without using such blunt words)
implied = said indirectly
implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
implied = said indirectly (said it without using such blunt words)
implying = saying indirectly
implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
implied = suggested
implied = showed indirectly
implied = suggested
implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
implied = shown (indirectly as a logical consequence)
imply = communicate the idea without saying it directly that
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