unlikelihood
IPA: ʌnɫˈaɪkɫihʊd
noun
- Absence of likelihood; the state of being unlikely or improbable; improbability.
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Examples of "unlikelihood" in Sentences
- Their story is one of unlikelihood and guts, with echoes of the famous Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Calgary Games.
- By contrast, sentiment among U.S. consumers dropped again in June, highlighting the extreme unlikelihood that the Fed will raise rates anytime soon.
- I remember Chris Van Allsburg musing about the unlikelihood of families gathering around the cozy glow of the computer screen to "read" the cd-rom version of The Polar Express.
- What you are referring to is the unlikelihood of those results assuming that blacks are exactly equal to whites in the knowledge of firefighting techniques and cognitive skills that this test measured.
- Given Luis Suárez's absence for another seven matches, and the unlikelihood of Carlos Tevez ever again appearing in the colours of Manchester City, both these teams would appear to have a short-term problem in the same vital area.
- The failures of the system are attributed to causes within the world view of the those receiving the welfare, namely the unlikelihood of that class of people being honest, and not the fact that the administrators of the program were dishonest.
- The modest widening in New Zealand's net international investment position once again highlights "the long-standing vulnerability for the NZ economy and the unlikelihood of a credit rating upgrade any time soon in our eyes," Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin said in a note.
- The emailer could have easily prefaced her comments with a paragraph explicitly expressing the unlikelihood that African Americans are inferior, or that any disparities in IQ testing are likely the products of environment, or some other caveat that softened the blow of her email.
- MQuinn: The emailer could have easily prefaced her comments with a paragraph explicitly expressing the unlikelihood that African Americans are inferior, or that any disparities in IQ testing are likely the products of environment, or some other caveat that softened the blow of herÂemail.
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