plausible deniability
Politics (originally and chiefly US )
noun
(The possibility of) denying a fact (especially a discreditable action) without arousing suspicion; the method of achieving this.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in The Washington Post.
- mallet-head
- mallet-headed
- malleting
- mallet instrument
- malleus
- mall girl
- malling
- Mallon, Mary
- Mallophaga
- mallophagan
- mallophagous
- Mallorca
- Mallorquin
- Claude Lorrain
- Claude Lorrain glass
- claudication
- Claudius
- clausal
- clause
- Clause 28
- Clause 4
- Clause Four
- Clause IV
- Clausewitz, Karl von
- Clausius, Rudolf