unlikeliness
IPA: ʌnɫˈaɪkɫinʌs
noun
- The property of being unlikely, improbability.
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Examples of "unlikeliness" in Sentences
- My interest in her was sparked by the sheer unlikeliness of her character.
- But not even she can challenge Paul's teenage daughter for sheer unlikeliness.
- He used the extreme unlikeliness of a rescue scenario to his advantage and invented the infinite improbability drive, which became a major plot point in the story.
- Hedge funds eventually evolved, by intentional design effort, insurance policies against unlikely things happening because of the actuarial unlikeliness of those things happening.
- The reason, surely, was the sheer fantastical unlikeliness that Hugh Grant Hugh Grant! might have concealed a tape recorder somewhere on his person before driving down to Dover to entrap him.
- Yet the reputation is difficult to marry with the warm, friendly and, quite frankly, hilarious gentleman in an anorak I find in the lobby of a hotel in Beverly Hills, looking a little bemused, possibly because he is standing next to – with pleasing unlikeliness – Joan Rivers.
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