implausibly
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From implausible + -ly.
Adverb
implausibly (comparative more implausibly, superlative most implausibly)
- In an implausible or dubious manner.
- 1991, Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity:
- Sid was now living in a small commune in the Shetland Islands, where he and his fellow communards were dedicated to the growing of implausibly large hydroponic onions.
- 2000 February 24, “Tony Blair takes his time”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- He has good cards to play on making Brussels better and slimming the continent's heavyweight welfare states. Both can, not implausibly, be given a New Labourish colouring, though Mr Blair's lectures can sound insufferably Pecksniffian.
- 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time[2], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 June 2011:
- Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal, his academic decathlete son, from certain death.
- 2011, Jonathan Haslam, Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- His behavior was not implausibly assumed to reflect, albeit indirectly, larger elements at work, even if mitigated by the cosmopolitan, patrician emollience of his character, as against the awkward, provincial angularity of his untried successor, then Vice President, Harry Truman.
- 2013 October 12, Stephanie Merritt, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review”, in The Observer[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2026:
- By making her a widow, Fielding allows Mark Darcy to remain as implausibly perfect in death as he was in life (killed by a landmine while negotiating the release of aid workers in Sudan, no less), […]
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “implausibly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.