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- Of course, I redouble my efforts to look professional—cutting and snipping for all I'm worth: mainly because I know that if ever those two assistants so much as glimpse my distress—and the implied doubt that this repetitive and smelly work is doing any social good at all—I will be the next across the stone.†
Scene 1.5 *implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- The old story of bluster, and do bugger-all ....I imply that we can't have children; but actually, it's only me.†
Scene 2.25imply = suggest (say indirectly)
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)