All 9 Uses
imply
in
Never Let Me Go
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- It was always stuff like that, and never explicitly claimed, just implied by her smile and "let's say no more" expression.†
p. 57.5implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- I did my best, meanwhile, to take any opportunity to imply to Ruth she had a special place in Miss Geraldine's heart.†
p. 61.6imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- He didn't like to talk to us much, and the way he went round sighing and shaking his head disgustedly implied we weren't doing nearly enough to keep the place up.†
p. 116.9implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- You could go around implying you'd read all kinds of things, nodding knowingly when someone mentioned, say, War and Peace, and the understanding was that no one would scrutinise your claim too rationally.†
p. 123.2implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- Okay, she often bluffed and implied all sorts of things I knew weren't true.†
p. 130.1implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- I never heard Ruth actually lie to veterans; it was more to do with not denying certain things, implying others.†
p. 145.6 *implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- That was partly because of the tape; and maybe, if I have to be honest, because I was pleased by the notion that Ruth wasn't taking the animals seriously, and everything that implied.†
p. 192.5implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- I could have challenged Ruth, told her she was twisting things, that even if I might have laughed, it wasn't in the way she was implying.†
p. 195.2implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- I felt surprisingly calm, and even though Miss Emily's words should have crushed us, there was an aspect to them that implied something further, something being held back, that suggested we hadn't yet got to the bottom of things.†
p. 258.6implied = suggested (said 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)