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imply
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Black Like Me
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Each time they refused me, they implied clearly that I had probably come by these checks dishonestly and they wanted nothing to do with them or me.
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implied = suggested (said indirectly)
It implies respect for the persons involved.†

implies = suggests (says indirectly)
He was so obtuse he did not realize the implied insult in his astonishment that a black man could do anything but say "yes, sir" and mumble four-letter words.†

implied = suggested (said indirectly)
The significance lay in the fact that my blackness and his concepts of what my blackness implied allowed him to expose himself in this manner.†
After he drove on, I felt sure he meant to imply that someone from out of town, not a local group, planned this.†

imply = suggest (say indirectly)
Implied in all this was the hiding, the denial, of his selfhood, his negritude, his culture, as though they were somehow shameful.†

implied = suggested (said indirectly)

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