All 3 Uses of
plausible
in
Arrowsmith
- He tried to be practical about it; oh, he was extremely practical and plausible!†
Chpt 12 *
- Therefore I t'ink you will either make a very good scientist or a very bad one, and if you are bad enough, you will be popular with the rich ladies who rule this city, New York, and you can gif lectures for a living or even become, if you get to be plausible enough, a college president.†
Chpt 26
- No Pickerbaugh or Rouncefield could burst in here and drag him away to be explanatory and plausible and public; he would be free to work, instead of being summoned to the package-wrapping and dictation of breezy letters which men call work.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(plausible) apparently reasonable, but unproven