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credible

Speech parts

1. credible - Adjective

2. credible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. John le Carré

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. Wim Wenders

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power. Christopher Hitchens

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet. Carl Jung

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. Edward R. Murrow

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