deniable

adjective

de·ni·able di-ˈnī-ə-bəl

dē-

: capable of being denied

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Multiple security officials across Europe describe a threat that is metastasizing as Russian agents, increasingly under scrutiny by security services and frustrated in their own operations, hire local amateurs to undertake high-risk, and often deniable, crimes on their behalf. —

Tara John, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 Policymakers can also use coercive tools that are more deniable or otherwise less visible to the public. —

Erik Lin-Greenberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024 Limited, flexible, and nominally deniable interventions—often on behalf of distasteful partners that the West is unwilling to countenance—can establish Russian influence on the cheap and secure lucrative revenue streams, such as from gold mining. —

Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024 The political motivations in civil and criminal lawsuits driven by Democrats against Donald Trump are not credibly deniable. —

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for deniable