All 16 Uses
imply
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Ancillary Justice
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- The air was minus eighteen degrees; the breeze from the south, at approximately eight kph, implied snow sometime in the near future.†
p. 31.9implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- The other three, implied and necessitated by that first, are EskVar (Beginning/ Ending), IssaInu (Movement/Stillness), and VahnItr (Existence/Nonexistence).†
p. 33.4
- And she's utterly shameless—you heard her imply the Orsians were being rewarded for collaboration, and in nearly the same breath imply her people would be even better collaborators!†
p. 61.5imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- And she's utterly shameless—you heard her imply the Orsians were being rewarded for collaboration, and in nearly the same breath imply her people would be even better collaborators!†
p. 61.6
- Glad on at least one count that we weren't speaking Radchaai, where the word implied significance.†
p. 77.4implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- Implying I was precisely what she feared, a Radchaai agent come to kill her and take the gun.†
p. 81.2implying = suggesting (saying indirectly)
- Once again I had no way of determining who had left them, or when, though Denz Ay's oblique statements, careful not to implicate the fishermen I knew usually poached in those areas, implied that they must have arrived some time in the past month or two.†
p. 97.4implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- Her tone implied she wasn't a child, but I'd best not ask why she was carrying a child's game set.†
p. 108.5
- Using it, Commander Tiaund implied more than just that she expected Lieutenant Awn to follow regulations or etiquette.†
p. 173.6 *
- Implied she suspected some injustice was behind events.†
p. 173.6
- "It seems," she said, in an even tone that seemed impartial but implied disapproval, "that I don't understand your friend when he tries to explain what happened."†
p. 220.3
- Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity.†
p. 236.3implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- Beginnings imply and require endings.†
p. 236.3imply = suggest (say indirectly)
- And the courtesy of tea implied this wasn't an arrest.†
p. 271.9implied = suggested (said indirectly)
- The verb Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat used implied that it hadn't been an approved, Medical-mediated suicide but something illicit and messy.†
p. 278.2
- Even though I knew that if she thought about it for longer than thirty seconds, she would never want from me what that gift implied.†
p. 305.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)