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 *plausibly = with apparent reasonableness (though unproven)
Definition:
apparently reasonable, but unproven