perhapsy

comparative more perhapsy · superlative most perhapsy

1. rareCharacterized by uncertainty; prone to hesitation.

   Students soon learn that, on true-false tests, assertions containing strong, forthright words like “always” or “never” are usually intended as false, while those containing hesitant, perhapsy words like “sometimes,” “can,” or “may” are generally to be regarded as true.

   2003 [1962], Banesh Hoffmann, The Tyranny of Testing, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 51