All 9 Uses of
imply
in
Howards End
- But you implied just now that the engagement must be broken off.†
Part 2
- Its very situation—withdrawn a little behind the facile splendours of St. Pancras—implied a comment on the materialism of life.†
Part 2
- At times the Great North Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinity than any railway, awakening, after a nap of a hundred years, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills.†
Part 3
- "Do you imply that we Germans are stupid, Uncle Ernst?" exclaimed a haughty and magnificent nephew.†
Part 4
- Then she admitted that she was a little worried on Mrs. Wilcox's account; she implied that Mrs. Wilcox might reach backward into deep feelings, and be pained by things that never touched the other members of that clan.†
Part 7
- He implied that one ought not to sit out on Chelsea Embankment without a male escort.†
Part 15
- The aim of their debates she implied was Truth.
Part 15 *implied = said indirectly
- She was glad to go there, for Henry had implied his business rather than described it, and the formlessness and vagueness that one associates with Africa itself had hitherto brooded over the main sources of his wealth.†
Part 23
- The Italian spread out his hands, implying that he had not thought of rudeness, but would produce it if it pleased her.†
Part 25
Definition:
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(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence