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credibility gap definition

☆ credibility gap

  1. an apparent disparity between what is said and the actual facts
  2. the inability to have one's statements accepted as factual or one's professed motives accepted as the true ones

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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