plausible deniability
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
The capacity to deny knowledge of or responsibility for an action because no evidence firmly connects one to it.
Routing the funds through intermediaries gave the minister plausible deniability over the payments.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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