All 6 Uses
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- Pride of personal and racial worth implied.†
Chpt 1.3 *implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- We don't want to push you," they said delicately, implying that if I wanted to associate with them I would have to join.†
Chpt 1.6implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- This may be the last time, I don't know ....They sang it, hummed it, crooned it, moaned it, implying in sweet, frightening tones that if we did not join the church then and there we might die in our sleep that very night and go straight to hell.†
Chpt 1.6
- "I hope you know your own mind," she said in a tone which implied that she doubted if I had a mind.†
Chpt 1.13implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- It would have implied that the Negro did not like to work for the white boss, that he felt he was not receiving just consideration and, inasmuch as most jobs that Negroes held in the South involved a personal, paternalistic relationship, he would have been risking an argument that might have led to violence.†
Chpt 2.15
- They left with mirthless smiles which implied that I would soon know what was wrong.†
Chpt 2.19
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)