Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not plausible; not having a fair or specious appearance.
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- adjective Alternative form of
implausible .
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Examples
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They seemed awfully quick to spill the beans to him, after being tightlipped in Baerlon, which was a bit on the unplausible side.
Carai an Caldazar and Blackout Reviewed RobB 2010
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Fairies in the garden pond can be a consistent (albeit, unplausible) belief.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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They seemed awfully quick to spill the beans to him, after being tightlipped in Baerlon, which was a bit on the unplausible side.
Archive 2010-01-01 RobB 2010
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Fairies in the garden pond can be a consistent (albeit, unplausible) belief. nullasalus: But when someone relates an experience, your instinct for evaluating it is to rely on empiricism.
Dawkins and ID 2008
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My two cents for improving the show next season: Even after committing as an audience member to the premise of the show, the one really unplausible part of the show for me is that Nate's crew isn't recognized more often, either during a con or between cons.
LEVERAGE Season 2 SPOILERS Rogers 2009
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The entire “left brain, right brain” debate has always seemed unplausible to me.
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I agree that this is somehow unplausible to give up any kind of technology.
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As someone who has always read and whose livelihood depends on students who themselves identify as readers, that possibility was disturbing but not unplausible; I'd long since stopped reading the short fiction in The New Yorker, at least in part because it felt the least urgent: given the finite amount of my reading time, I concluded that the nonfictional stuff was what was interesting, topical--and much more likely to come up in dinner-party conversation.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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As someone who has always read and whose livelihood depends on students who themselves identify as readers, that possibility was disturbing but not unplausible; I'd long since stopped reading the short fiction in The New Yorker, at least in part because it felt the least urgent: given the finite amount of my reading time, I concluded that the nonfictional stuff was what was interesting, topical--and much more likely to come up in dinner-party conversation.
Archive 2008-08-01 Flavia 2008
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"Masterpiece" is center of the morally tendentious Rand in the passage - the kind of work her unplausible Atlases do, and the passage can be unravelled by that thread.
What is John Galt? James Killus 2007
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