1. plausible - Adjective
2. plausible - Adjective Satellite
Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTruth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment. Charlotte Brontë
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. Harry Turtledove
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. John Brunner
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter - if not a paragraph or a name - in the history of philosophy. Jorge Luis Borges