Plausible
Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
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Plausible Quotations
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Arthur Golden
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
Marilyn Hacker
The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
Edward Bond
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen
Plausible Translations
plausible in Dutch is aannemelijk, waarschijnlijk
plausible in Swedish is rimlig, sannolik, antaglig
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