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verisimilitudinous

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  • adjective appearing to be verisimilar; exhibiting verisimilitude, in either a neutral or a dubious sense.

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Examples

  • Now I must go envision a way to dress up as "verisimilitudinous."

    Parading One’s Vocabulary 2009

  • Now I must go envision a way to dress up as "verisimilitudinous."

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • I think the best part is the verisimilitudinous asymmetry.

    Li’l Danny’s House o’ Pig? | clusterflock 2009

  • I am drawn to both agree and disagree with this objection in general -- agree, because I, too, have had the experience of reading books where the attempt to capture a child's impressions and ideas seemed strained and even embarrassing; disagree, because most successful fiction creates a voice that is entirely artificial, and yet, through its artifice, persuades us -- misdirects us -- to swear it's real and convincing and verily verisimilitudinous.

    A Prolegomenon to the Reading of Some Books Labeled YA 2006

  • I am drawn to both agree and disagree with this objection in general -- agree, because I, too, have had the experience of reading books where the attempt to capture a child's impressions and ideas seemed strained and even embarrassing; disagree, because most successful fiction creates a voice that is entirely artificial, and yet, through its artifice, persuades us -- misdirects us -- to swear it's real and convincing and verily verisimilitudinous.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • How am I going to get those verisimilitudinous qualities…which is very difficult to say and to get.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • How am I going to get those verisimilitudinous qualities…which is very difficult to say and to get.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • How am I going to get those verisimilitudinous qualities…which is very difficult to say and to get.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • How am I going to get those verisimilitudinous qualities…which is very difficult to say and to get.

    The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004

  • Third, I believe that the models I shall present are not only possible and beyond philosophical challenge but also true, or at least verisimilitudinous, close to the truth.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

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