Still, the scoff could be plausibly pointed at the "young enthusiasts who crowded the Via Media, and who never presumed to argue, except against the propriety of arguing at all.
The ground was changed, and a point was now brought forward on the Liberal side, for which a good deal might be plausibly said.
When we find a man concealing worse than nullity of meaning under sentences that sound plausibly enough, we should distrust him much as we should a fellow-traveller whom we caught trying to steal our watch.
It is indeed difficult (more particularly for so formal and nice a reasoner as Mr. Malthus) to piece such contradictions plausibly or gracefully together.
His example is appealed to, not because he was the only man who did so, but because he was so esteemed as a learned and excellent man, that it could plausibly be maintained that what he did was and is a good thing to do.
There are flood stories which, at first sight, mayplausibly be held to be only exaggerated accounts of some ancient historical occurrences.
The government guarantee of interest and the government nomination of a part of the board of directors were plausibly held to involve responsibility for the solvency of the company.
The policy of Laud and Stratford kept Milton out of the Church, and sent him into retirement at Horton; the same policy, it may be plausibly conjectured, had something to do with the change in the subject of his long-meditated epic.
No one has plausibly explained how they came by their office.
Yet the Egyptians plausibly say that it is not impossible for the spirit of a god to have intercourse with a woman and beget some beginnings of life," though Plutarch finds a difficulty in such a union of unequals.
Why he rather than any of the "ten thousand others" who might much more plausibly be called the Messiah?
Each view may be plausibly defended, and the inexhaustible arsenal of history seems to provide impartially instances in corroboration of each.
Their absence was plausibly explained, the next morning, by the young German friend who came in to see the Marches at breakfast.
If he could plausibly account for the renewal of his flirtation with Miss Elkins, or if he seemed generally worthy apart from that, she could forgive him.
It is certain that many tribal worships are blended in her legend and each of two or three widely different notions of her nature may be plausibly regarded as the most primitive.
Mueller remarks plausibly that "the figure of the swallowing is employed in imitation of still older legends," such as those of Africa and Australia.
But it may very plausibly be maintained that a myth so wild, and so analogous in its most brutal details to the myths of many widely scattered races, is more probably ancient than a fresh invention of a poet of the sixth century.
The style of this composition entirely resembles that of Robert of Gloucester, and portions of the life of Beket are identical with the Chronicle; whence Mr Black plausibly argues that both are by the same hand.
Now it might perhaps be plausibly maintained that the possession of such a memory is unfavourable to a high development of the reasoning powers.
And yet, in some ways, Hazlitt boasted, and boasted plausibly enough, of his constancy.
The name of Dido has been plausibly derived by Gesenius, Movers, E.
The manner in which the first misleading reference to 'Margaret' was afterwards explained away may well have been the cunning of a 'control' trying plausibly to cover his tracks and justify his professed identity.
Now it might be plausibly argued that the new prophecy in Israel was first stirred and quickened by all this mental shock and strain, and that even the loftier ethics of the prophets were thus due to the advance of Assyria.
Plausibly enough he was accused of disloyalty to his pledges and of aiming to be king.
Speculation on matters of no practical significance formed the substance of the work, and the young men learned that worst of lessons--to discourse volubly and plausibly on matters of which they knew nothing.
It appeared, therefore, that though my friend had been so plausibly grieved, the bottle knew he was fit to receive its contents, and I had merely wanted penetration to detect his clandestine cheerfulness.
However, I acquiesced in his praises as plausibly as I could.
Another work of Myron has been plausibly recognized in a statue of a satyr in the Lateran Museum (Fig.
Even in Herbert Spencer, it has been plausibly argued, one can detect something of that sort of mystic confidence in forces spontaneously directing life, which forms the very essence of those systems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plausibly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apparently; falsely; nominally; ostensibly; seemingly
