(a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
Example Sentences:
(1) However his interpretation that these feelings are always based on libidinous wishes and jealousy seems to the author too farfetched and not fully proved in all cases.
(2) Photograph: Ed Pilkington for the Guardian Like most Americans, he agrees that Trump’s proposals are outlandish, outspoken and “probably a little farfetched”.
(3) The liberalization of the abortion law had caused rather farfetched psychosocial reasons for abortion and has contributed to a laxity in the use of contraceptives.
(4) It is not too farfetched to suggest that had the American servicemen been given more cereal food products including bread and other baked food items, instead of excessive amounts of meat and fats, the dietary pattern of America might well have been substantially different.
(5) I might walk with shorter steps, that’s all!” The idea of gang members putting on frocks and taking up pottery might be slightly farfetched, but Perry – who grew up through the androgyny of punk and the experimentation of new romanticism – thinks a lot of people could be freer if they loosened up about gender.
(6) The tale sounds farfetched, frankly, and yet 40 years later she still needs to tell it.
Implausible
Definition:
(a.) Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(2) True or not, it is telling that not even Erdoğan's advocates find it implausible.
(3) He did, though, give some seriously implausible figures.
(4) Pseudo-PTSD patients were those who (1) claimed to be suffering a psychological injury (2) that was so severe that it was disabling (3) due to an experience that was entirely implausible as a candidate for PTSD criterion A in DSM-III-R and (4) scored T = 65 or higher on both PK and PS, the post-traumatic stress disorder subscales of the MMPI-2.
(5) Their arguments that in auditory perception, uniquely, we hear proximal stimulation, not its physical causal sources, is implausible.
(6) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
(7) Allen may be reaping the reward of keeping non-Italian press out of the first screenings (the version released in Italy has a dubbed dialogue track, which Allen is known to dislike) as he tends to get a better response from non-native critics, who are less attentive to implausible details.
(8) On the other hand, if you deny the assumption that humans are social, group-based primates with constraints, however imprecise, on their willingness to share, you find yourself having to defend some implausible positions: for example, that we should spend as much on development aid as on the NHS, or that Britain should have no immigration controls at all.
(9) All that fine talk in Cairo in 2009 may have hit all our happy notes, but now in Cairo and across the Middle East, when the US administration reiterates its hopes for strong democracy in the region, it is beyond implausible – it is insulting.
(10) The standard form of back-propagation learning is implausible as a model of perceptual learning because it requires an external teacher to specify the desired output of the network.
(11) The argument given by Segers does not avoid this implausible conclusion.
(12) Speculation that a jealous lover could have been responsible for a professional hit in the very heart of Moscow has been dismissed by Nemtsov’s friends and colleagues as implausible.
(13) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(14) According to The Hollywood Reporter , in this film the implausible weather event will “cause mass destruction in the nation’s capital” before tearing down the eastern seaboard.
(15) On the evening in question, Pryce had been at a university function in central London; the Crown held was that it was "implausible" that anyone other than Huhne could have been driving.
(16) Hodgson’s team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
(17) The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, said: "Alistair Darling has relied on implausible growth forecasts for the economy which nobody but himself believes.
(18) For Alex Salmond’s part, Alan Greenspan has described his economic forecasts as being “so implausible they should really be dismissed out of hand”.
(19) It’s profoundly implausible that any Australian prime minister would want to have a secret visit to Australian troops and, plainly, there was footage released of everything that I did yesterday, but for understandable security reasons it is difficult to get people into Iraq at the moment and it was for security reasons that I was unable to take local media in.
(20) Evidence reveals, however, that our planet is an almost unimaginably complicated beast, which reacts to a dramatically changing climate in all manner of different ways; a few – like the aforementioned – straightforward and predictable; some surprising and others downright implausible.