"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then they defied credulity by reversing their message, claiming that the economy was in great shape and that their own policies were responsible for it.
- The poverty of the administration at the richest union in the world has defied credulity, lurching from one crisis to the next with chequebook in hand.
- When I got the assignment to write about this 200-year-old medical practice that defies credulity, I decided to pit homeopathy against my stubborn allergy symptoms.
- It defies credulity that people are criticizing Israel for being proactive in defending itself against the existential threat posed by Iran.
- For starters, it defies credulity to believe that Mr. Hussein, literally holed up in the ground, has been directing the resistance.
- The School Library Journal wrote that "the story is somewhat convoluted and often defies credulity", but also praised the book's characters.
- "To say they didn't know, to say they didn't understand, it just defies credulity," he said.
- Your reporter cites some preposterous examples of teen-age naivete, that defy credulity, as typical to prove the point.
- The idea that a major political party would pull a stunt like that days before the Presidential election utterly defies credulity.
- To suggest that a highly skilled procedure such as a colonoscopy could ever take that little time defies credulity.
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