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The sentence is "本当っぽいです", it's used to answer against a somewhat incredible
statement, so I assume it contains a bit of sarcasm on it, and that is what I
want to confirm.

I know that っぽい mean that something is "like" something else, like 子供っぽい
meaning childish.

So on this case, I assume that 本当っぽい is used here as "something that looks
like the _**thing**_ , but probably isn't but thing _**itself**_ ", so on this
case it would look like truth without being truth itself, thus being a lie, is
that correct or I'm misunderstanding the meaning of っぽい on this case?
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Meaning of 本当っぽいです
This -っぽい is merely a hedge used to decrease the level of certainty. The
author avoided saying "that's true" definitively.

  * 本当です。 That's true.
  * 本当っぽいです。 Looks like that's true.
  * ダメです。 It doesn't work.
  * ダメっぽいです。 Looks like it doesn't work.

Note that っぽい does not sound negative or sarcastic by itself. 子供っぽい can be
used with a real child in a positive way. っぽい sounds relatively more informal
and colloquial than のよう or みたい, though.
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