Portuguese term
dizer não dizendo
Proposed translations
saying without speaking
double negative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative
saying without (any) words
implicit speech
tacit communication
saying it by implying
saying but not saying
"What is the meaning and definition of implied?........
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Then, many times in our communications use the implicit to express something in a more veiled, without being so direct way, so that might be something shocking for some receivers or in some contexts and then for this situation is that you choose to manifest itself in an implicit way, SAYING BUT NOT SAYING it with direct words. "
https://dictionaryofdefinitions.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/what-...
"After the many public hearing shows, in which the Commissioners very skillfully played their good cop/bad cop routine and displayed their lifelong mastery of the political art of SAYING BUT NOT SAYING, and asking but not asking, all parties ..."
"Viewers echoed what the ads were SAYING-BUT-NOT-SAYING. Twitter was alight with such delightful offerings as, “I didn’t expect that from her,” and, ..."
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