barely credible
Frequency: 5.53.0 per million words
Meaning only just believable; almost not credible.
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- His excuse for being late was barely credible.
- The witness's account of the event, though detailed, seemed barely credible to the jury.
- The conspiracy theory they presented was so outlandish that it was barely credible.
- He made a claim about his past achievements that I found barely credible.
- Her explanation for the missing money was barely credible, and nobody really believed her.
- The government's official statement on the incident is barely credible in light of the new evidence.
- The idea of time travel, while fascinating, remains a barely credible concept to most scientists.
- His tale of wrestling a bear was barely credible, but he told it with such conviction.
- The startup's projected profits were so optimistic that investors considered the business plan barely credible.
- It seems barely credible that he could have finished the entire project overnight by himself.