Both Uses of
plausible
in
1984 by Orwell
- Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party — an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.†
p. 12..7
- If questioned, he could plausibly say that he was trying to buy razor blades.†
p. 93..9 *
Definition:
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(plausible) apparently reasonable, but unproven