implausible

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[ UK /ɪmplˈɔːzəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɫɔzəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having a quality that provokes disbelief
    gave the teacher an implausible excuse
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How To Use implausible In A Sentence

  • What do you mean, it all sounds utterly implausible? Times, Sunday Times
  • Many modern philosophers consider that claims to knowledge of an unembodied consciousness (a God) are too dubious and implausible to be worth considering.
  • Bayesian 'suggested the implausible image of a process that gets the correct answer, then adulterates it with a bias. Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography
  • After the pair enjoyed an implausible pop stardom together, Flynn baled out and found peace with his inner self.
  • Now, the perpetrator governments have agreed to this legal conclusion, although they maintain the implausible assertion that gun confiscations were not the result of official policy.
  • gave the teacher an implausible excuse
  • This idea is totally implausible.
  • Of all the impossible occurrences in Fantastic Four, none seems as implausible as scientist Reed Richards's scheme to make billions of dollars by studying the human genome through the exposure of plants - yes, plants - to cosmic rays.
  • From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited. Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
  • He largely refused to offer explanations or interpretations of his films: when he did so, they were implausible. The Times Literary Supplement
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