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deniable.

Adjective
Formal
MEANING

Able to be rejected as untrue or disowned without losing credibility.

Use it for

actions whose sponsor can plausibly disown involvement; responsibility hard to establish; a claim that can credibly be disputed

Words that belong together

  • a deniable operation
  • a deniable connection

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The arrangement kept the payments deniable without making them untraceable.
Word forms
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deniable

Usage notes

Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: Comparative more deniable; superlative most deniable when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evaluation, qualification. Commonness: moderately common.

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