Crossword-Solution: PLAUSIBLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plausible | a. | Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready. |
| Plausible | a. | Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion. |
| Plausible | a. | Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PLAUSIBLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Seemingly true | 1 answer |
| Not too much of a stretch | 1 answer |
| Apparently reasonable or probable | 1 answer |
| Not out of the question | 5 answers |
| ben trovato | 8 answers |
| colourable | 8 answers |
| on the cards | 10 answers |
| *To be expected | 11 answers |
| achievable | 18 answers |
| credible | 22 answers |
| specious | 28 answers |
| Ostensible | 29 answers |
| believable | 53 answers |
| Defensible | 62 answers |
| convincing | 63 answers |
| Reasonable | 77 answers |
| Sound | 116 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLAUSIBLE (5)
What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done? The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the _how_ of this splitting of the human species.
Here is a plausible conversation that never actually happened: "There is a bug in this ant farm!" "What do you mean? I don't see any ants in it." "That's the bug." [There has been a widespread myth that the original bug was moved to the Smithsonian, and an earlier version of this entry so asserted.
Why weren’t they? It is a very plausible guess that nobody there or elsewhere was interested to know.
The cheery “Kaor!” and the plausible explanation that the owner had come from distant parts for a few days of pleasure in gay Helium sufficed.
His professional brethren, each for himself, adopted various hypotheses, more or less plausible, but all dressed out in a perplexing mystery of phrase, which, if it do not show a bewilderment of mind in these erudite physicians, certainly causes it in the unlearned peruser of their opinions.
Quotes with PLAUSIBLE (3)
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1980–2019).