All 3 Uses of
imply
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- He smiled at Kennicott, to imply that whatever he might say in the stress of being witty was not to count against him in the commercio-medical warfare.†
Chpt 4 *imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- Are you by any chance implying that I am not economical?†
Chpt 14implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- Cy had obtained a pint of whisky; he said that he didn't remember where he had got it; Mrs. Bogart implied that Fern had given it to him; Fern herself insisted that he had stolen it from a farmer's overcoat—which, Mrs. Bogart raged, was obviously a lie.†
Chpt 32implied = suggested (said indirectly)
Definition:
to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence