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deniability

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being deniable. 2 (context countable English) The extent to which something is deniable.

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Usage examples of "deniability".

His cyber fingers left no prints and AA would do their best to clean up after him for deniability if anything went wrong today.

He would have deniability, and a long list of Lucky haters to draw upon that he had cultivated for years.

In the politically correct world of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, outsourcing gave CIA deniability.

I will only talk in abstract terms, so there's complete deniability, but I'm sure that your well-honed and well-brought-up intellect will understand.

And if she never told anyone, the government would at least have plausible deniability.

What if plausible deniability and bureaucratic confusion aren't the reasons the president was misled?

As a result, they try to follow policies of plausible deniability, which means that messages are given to the CIA to do things but without a paper trail, without a record.

You've got your plausible deniability, and in court I'll testify that you didn't help us, even though you did.

By privatizing covert operations, the government gets to maintain "plausible deniability.