increditable
English edit
Etymology edit
in- + creditable
Adjective edit
increditable (comparative more increditable, superlative most increditable)
- (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
- 1860 July 11, "The President, Mr. Vanderbilt, and the Pacific Mails" (editorial), New York Times (retrieved 26 Nov 2011):
- Increditable as it may seem, we suspect the Constitution of irony.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 13, in Memories and Portraits:
- [T]he shopmen . . ., increditable as it may sound, used to demand of us upon our entrance, like banditti, if we came with money or with empty hand.
- 1860 July 11, "The President, Mr. Vanderbilt, and the Pacific Mails" (editorial), New York Times (retrieved 26 Nov 2011):