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UK
/kɹˌɛdɪbˈɪlɪti/
]
[ US /ˌkɹɛdəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌkɹɛdəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being believable or trustworthy
How To Use credibility In A Sentence
- He has been using every opportunity to boost his credibility as a budget cutter.
- A company should not argue the inarguable, for it only harms credibility and makes motives and priorities suspect.
- The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
- They've got that credibility and that respectability back.
- His arrest for lewd behaviour seriously damaged his credibility as a religious leader.
- To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
- He is a futurist with a track record and enough credibility for the National Academy of Engineering to publish his sunny forecast for solar energy.
- Lack of credibility isn’t subject to “proof,” when the chore is to prove a negative. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill
- Newspapers were talking of a credibility gap between what he said and what he did.
- Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.