Example sentences for: deniability

How can you use “deniability” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • CIA officials had taken most of the blame, saying they had done so in order to preserve the President's "plausible deniability."

  • It might be possible to establish an equation to determine the Plausible Deniability Factor (PDF) of any statement.

  • Other euphemisms for lying that were used included excessive statements, outright misrepresentation, dissembled, prudent to change those chronologies , and radically different from the facts . The concept of “plausible deniability” is a variation on the theme of avoiding the recognition or the admission of lying.

  • On plausible deniability, see, e.g., Ranelagh, The Agency, pp. 341-345; Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA (Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 230-235.


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