Face and Implication

Face

Face noun - Outward and often deceptive indication.

Usage example: on the face of it, the country went to war for noble reasons

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Implication and face are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Implication" instead a noun "Face".

Nearby Words: faced, facing, facer, faceless

Implication noun - Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied).

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Face and implication are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Face" instead a noun "Implication".

Nearby Words: imply, implicate, implied, implicated, implying

good	good face	good implication
similar	similar face	similar implication
true	true face	true implication
small	small face	small implication
Other adjectives: real, big, huge, sad, little, dark, scary, different, creepy.

The implication is that Bell came face to face with the villain, but agreed that "he hadn't seen him".

Source: Downer Ending / Film
His reasoning is, that only an inanimate face can always display perfect beauty and emotions would distort its perfection (with a subtle implication he was inspired by The Major's face when they met as children).

Source: Frozen Face
When the protagonist comes face to face with General von François, the German asks whether the former is in fact Russian (with implication that the latter thinks he might be (ethnic) German).

Source: German Russians

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