What is "far-fetched"

Usage examples of "far-fetched".

Indeed this whole subject, the virtual anticipation of our nineteenth-century principles of aseptic surgery in the thirteenth century, is not a dream nor a far-fetched explanation when one knows enough about the directions that were laid down in the surgical text-books of that time.

You never knew, with Dunster, whether his far-fetched allegations might not have some truth in them.

The missletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense be said to struggle with these trees, for if too many of these parasites grow on the same tree, it will languish and die.

Far-fetched, but I understand the tallest, the most preposterous tarradiddle will be gulped down whole by your public.

All these allegations were so far-fetched as to be the stuff of nightmare.

His idea of borrowing propellant tanks from one of the landers was not as far-fetched as it seemed, but it had still been a gamble.

Unless we are to assume that there are several classes of adjectives, some that agree in number and others that don't and I think this is rather far-fetched it seems that Tolkien in the draft material used a system whereby an attributive adjective immediately in front of its noun does not agree in number.

It's far-fetched, but not impossible to believe that the same political body that erected a mountainous dump on the shore of Biscayne Bay would now vote to protect the rest of it.

If I do a Sofia Coppola out there, the thought of being a small-time character actress might seem pretty far-fetched.

It avoided far-fetched allusions combined with lack of concision and force.

Even the taste of the next generation showed a change, for Cotton Mather's son, Samuel, noted as a blemish his father's “straining for far-fetched and dear-bought hints.

However, when I remembered the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere in Mexican mythology, and the equally obsessive concern with forecasting future events evident in the Maya calendar, I felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched conclusions of the American engineer.

The analogy was not all that far-fetched, for Daniel had matriculated just after the Restoration, and found himself among young men of the Quality who’d spent most of their lives in Paris.

We'll see what far-fetched excuse you'll give for jumpin' my old Daddy's mining claim, and if either one of you try to lie, I'll lead-pizen you like I would a foamy-mouth coyote.

It must be said, however, that the more than usually extravagant plotting is at times rather too far-fetched to be convincing even on the level of the murder mystery novel, though the novel as a whole is undeniably entertaining.