credibly

CEFRB2

/ˈkɹɛdɪbli/

adverb

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In plain English

01
adverb
In a way that can be believed or trusted.
02
adverb
Extra detail
Used to report the speaker's assessment of the credibility of a reported statement

Examples

Can the president credibly commit to that?
A suitor can credibly signal his love for a woman by offering her an expensive and extravagant gift.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

In context

He was in a position to commit to a credibly conservative monetary policy.
He [Mayor Koch] says he better understands the limits of government; less credibly, he says he has mellowed.
His deep-set eyes and expression of general despair lend him a look of utter dissolution—very credibly, he is dying from sexual desire.

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He [Mayor Koch] says he better understands the limits of government; less credibly, he says he has mellowed.
1989, The New York Times Magazine, page 38
Bill Clinton was elected on an untenable premise: that it is the job of the President to manage the economy. Yes, that is what we have come to expect of Presidents; but this expectation, the author argues, is punishingly at variance with anything any President can credibly deliver[.]
1993 July 26, Charles R. Morris, “It's Not the Economy, Stupid”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2025
His deep-set eyes and expression of general despair lend him a look of utter dissolution—very credibly, he is dying from sexual desire.
1997, Vanity Fair, volume 60, page 95
Perhaps less credibly she assumes that, as a necessary consequence of this move from the public space of the theatre to the private space of the closet, 'the emphasis shifted to subjective interpretation'
2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, number 51, page 132
In his eyes, if he allowed things to continue as before, he would be little better than a male prostitute. All too credibly, he could imagine himself aging into the superannuated gigolo of Juvenal's satire.
2009, Anthony Everitt, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, page 289

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From credible + -ly.