All 4 Uses of
imply
in
Starship Troopers
- You can search every article in those books, every court-martial case which has arisen under them, and you will not find one word which says, or implies, that your superior officer may not 'lay hands on you' or strike you in any other manner in line of duty.†
Chpt 5implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- When he was plain "Mr. Dubois" and I was one of the kids who had to take his course he hardly seemed to see me -- except once when he got me sore by implying that I had too much money and not enough sense.
Chpt 6 *implying = saying indirectly
- I fancy that the poet who wrote that song meant to imply that the best things in life must be purchased other than with money — which is true — just as the literal meaning of his words is false.†
Chpt 6imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- Whether it was my fault because I was in the Armed Services and should have therefore prevented the raid, or whether she felt that my mother had made a trip to Buenos Aires because I wasn't home where I should have been, was not quite clear; she managed to imply both in the same sentence.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence