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  • But Gallien persisted, and the more he talked, the more Ellis's skepticism receded.   (source)
    skepticism = doubt (that something is true)
  • "Right," she said, skeptically.   (source)
    skeptically = with doubt (regarding the truth of something)
  • "Maybe Mr. Birkway helped her chop up her husband and bury him and maybe they were getting worried and decided to disguise the spot with a rhododendron bush." I must have looked skeptical. Phoebe said, "Sal, you never can tell."   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
  • "I think somebody's got it in for Mother Paula. I think it's some kind of revenge deal."
    "Revenge," repeated the captain, somewhat skeptically.   (source)
    skeptically = in a doubtful manner (doubting the truth or accuracy of the statement)
  • Although I was beginning to like him better, I'm ashamed to admit that I was more than a little skeptical about this story.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
  • "Are people really gonna buy it if we never touch each
    other in public?" Peter asks, looking skeptical.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that it would work)
  • "It wasn't my fault."
    She looked at me skeptically, and I realized it was my fault   (source)
    skeptically = in a doubtful manner (like she didn't believe me)
  • Eddie was skeptical.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
  • When he gave me the book, Bill said, "Be skeptical about this one."   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that what it says is true)
  • They wandered through the rooms like skeptical housebuyers.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful
  • asked Judge Tanner, his voice edged with skepticism.   (source)
    skepticism = doubt (that something is true)
  • "Did you hear Celeste say something?" He sounded skeptical.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true or correct)
  • She gave him a skeptical look, and he explained.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
  • His voice was deeply skeptical.   (source)
  • Colton's eyes turned skeptical. "That doesn't look like Grandma Ellen."   (source)
  • He put his hands over his face but when he removed them she was still staring skeptically.   (source)
    skeptically = in a doubtful manner (regarding the truth or accuracy of the something)
  • I'd expected him to be just as skeptical about the nature of teenage love as I was.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful
  • "We have one big advantage: We're smarter than those guys."
    "We are?" Christopher asked skeptically.   (source)
    skeptically = in a doubtful manner
  • "Handsome is as handsome does," quoted Marilla.
    "I've had that said to me before, but I have my doubts about it," remarked skeptical Anne, sniffing at her narcissi.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
  • "Malfoy, the Heir of Slytherin?" said Hermione skeptically.†   (source)
  • Tim saw that Dr. Grant still looked skeptical, and Dennis Nedry, the messy fat man, appeared completely uninterested, as if he knew it all already.†   (source)
  • I said skeptically.†   (source)
  • In all honesty, the Count and Emile had been skeptical of their old friend's claim; but as soon as he began, they could only wonder that they had not guessed at it before.†   (source)
  • This is deep skepticism of the very institutions of our society.†   (source)
  • I was highly skeptical.†   (source)
  • I could feel the burn of his skeptical stare on the side of my face, but I pressed on.†   (source)
  • He looked at Michael skeptically and then slowly sat down.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep the skepticism from my voice.†   (source)
  • Silas looked at me skeptically.†   (source)
  • Now, however, her skepticism had been deeply challenged.†   (source)
  • She looked at me skeptically.†   (source)
  • When they see thirteen-year-old Werner come down from the attic, rubbing his eyes, shocks of white hair sticking up off his head, homemade toolbox hanging from his fist, they stare at him with the same skeptical smirk.†   (source)
  • Since I've never seen him do any kind of sport, and I'm skeptical about his bowling, I'm surprised.†   (source)
  • Gina's head tilted skeptically, indicating she knew that Mae actually had many questions still, but didn't want to ask them for fear of looking uninformed.†   (source)
  • "Speed eating?" says Francis, looking skeptical.†   (source)
  • I said, skeptically enough, I hoped, "Anyway, Daddy may be a drinker and even a rager, but he goes to church—"†   (source)
  • In fact, I think growing up in New York City instilled you with a healthy amount of skepticism about the human race at large†   (source)
  • "Come on, what's really going on?" she said, skeptically.†   (source)
  • There was no one in the world quite like his wife, Jordan thought-statuesque and stunning, smarter than he was (not that he'd ever admit it to her face), and so perfectly attuned to him that he nearly had to concede his skepticism and believe that psychics truly did walk among us.†   (source)
  • Breckin nods carefully, still looking at me with eyes full of skepticism.†   (source)
  • I asked him one afternoon at age seven, eyeing him skeptically across the card table where he was letting me win at Monopoly.†   (source)
  • Sticky, irritated that Kate hadn't been frightened in the dark drain, was inclined to be skeptical.†   (source)
  • She gives me a skeptical glance.†   (source)
  • She was skeptical, because she knew the tricks the mind could play.†   (source)
  • He arched his eyebrows, skeptical.†   (source)
  • When he unveiled the invention at the fair, the prototype was as yet untested, and his contemporaries were skeptical—and rightfully so.†   (source)
  • He was piqued by Ford's skeptical reaction.†   (source)
  • But with all my knowledge and skepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full color, three dimensions, and being in and part of those incredible parlors.†   (source)
  • She'll be just as skeptical as you were, but without the complicated romantic history...." "There's no complicated romantic history," Park said.†   (source)
  • "What people?" said Boris skeptically, running his finger back and forth under his nose.†   (source)
  • My reply, that it's my own invention, is greeted with skepticism.†   (source)
  • When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced.†   (source)
  • Initially, the recruits are skeptical.†   (source)
  • The light falls on Sarah's skeptical face.†   (source)
  • Murtagh looked skeptical.†   (source)
  • If you believe it, be skeptical.†   (source)
  • Flatnose was trudging along after Basta with a skeptical expression on his face.†   (source)
  • FOREWORD Who wouldn't be skeptical when a man claims to have spent an entire weekend with God, in a shack no less?†   (source)
  • I looked at the curious and skeptical faces of the children and the woman.†   (source)
  • She saw his skepticism and went on.†   (source)
  • She looked at me skeptically.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me skeptically.†   (source)
  • I'm sure most will be skeptical of stories they hear from Hatsumomo.†   (source)
  • She'd been deeply skeptical herself—apart from the young Shashi Kapoor and a cousin in India, she had never until then found herself attracted to an Indian man.†   (source)
  • I also need to acknowledge here that there is a different model of professional reading, deconstruction, that pushes skepticism and doubt to its extreme, questioning nearly everything in the story or poem at hand, to deconstruct the work and show how the author is not really in charge of his materials.†   (source)
  • James demands skeptically.†   (source)
  • Strigan raised one skeptical eyebrow.†   (source)
  • She looked at me, skeptically.†   (source)
  • Their skepticism shook Burnham.†   (source)
  • Methuselah is an African Grey parrot with a fine scaly look to his head, a sharp skeptical eye like Miss Leep's, and a scarlet tail.†   (source)
  • LIKE A LOT OF THE ARMY, I'M SURE THE CAPTAIN INItially looked at us skeptically.†   (source)
  • In philosophy a view like this is called skepticism.†   (source)
  • How, asks the skeptic from the balcony, did you know he loved you?†   (source)
  • Another skeptic pointed out that Don Maggs was a B-list left tackle and certainly not the guy to be guarding John Elway's blind side.†   (source)
  • Some Communist Party members were skeptical and so were many others.†   (source)
  • In truth, she was skeptical that they could actually pull it off.†   (source)
  • And since seven days had passed with no change, their skepticism was understandable.†   (source)
  • One of the soldiers, Willie Jett, reacted skeptically to Herold's story.†   (source)
  • He was pained by the deterioration of his mother, whose joy in living had, at one time, sparked the desire to live in even the most skeptical.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps it is a bad joke, someone who has a grudge against you," my father the skeptic questioned.†   (source)
  • But I am skeptical.†   (source)
  • To kill the patrons of an entire bar and then wait among the dead for hours ...I admit, even I was skeptical that treatment could help a man so deeply, deeply troubled.†   (source)
  • Vanessa eyes me skeptically.†   (source)
  • It is the end of skepticism.†   (source)
  • She curls her lip back, skeptical, and the resemblance to Juliet is no longer so strong.†   (source)
  • "That's a lot of Dauntless," a girl at the side of the room says, looking skeptical.†   (source)
  • She folded her arms, leaned against the door frame and gave him a skeptical smile.†   (source)
  • Although some people in the district were skeptical about the wild ideas of this marketer from Colorado, DeRose negotiated a $3.4 million dollar exclusive deal between the Grapevine-Colleyville School District and Dr Pepper in June of 1997.†   (source)
  • Skepticism overshadowed Janice and Larry's hope: expensive as the hospital had been, two weeks didn't seem long enough.†   (source)
  • However, some people around the Institute were skeptical of her ability to work in a space suit in Level 4.†   (source)
  • For all our skepticism about laws, this one, like the landmark 2000 legislation that required annual reports about human trafficking abroad, would have a real if incremental impact around the world.†   (source)
  • Grady's voice dripped skepticism.†   (source)
  • He looks skeptical.†   (source)
  • This wasn't the Hema who reacted to everything he said with skepticism.†   (source)
  • Still skeptical, one of the younger men asked Daagoo what he expected to find.†   (source)
  • It was quiet as Ted and Dexter exchanged a skeptical look, not unnoticed by John Miller, who sighed loudly, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • When I heard this, I knew I was doing better writing by myself no matter how skeptical I was of the results.†   (source)
  • "Not many churches?" said Long, casting a skeptical look.†   (source)
  • Augustus looked skeptical.†   (source)
  • Mark said skeptically.†   (source)
  • Among some of the British command, and some skeptical Americans, what happened at Trenton was seen as only a minor defeat, an aggravating affair, but of no great consequence when compared to such large-scale British victories of 1776 as the Battle of Brooklyn or the taking of Fort Washington.†   (source)
  • But no one has seen them poisoned, so you can't prove the skepticism.†   (source)
  • 'Thirty dollars each?' remarked Aarfy slowly, poking and patting each of the three strapping girls skeptically with the air of a grudging connoisseur.†   (source)
  • Mr. Watanabe raised a skeptical eyebrow and continued, glancing at Max's knuckles and those of his classmates.†   (source)
  • Moody was skeptical.†   (source)
  • Ann is skeptical.†   (source)
  • I had majored in theater, much to the skepticism of my father and grandfather.†   (source)
  • Medved pursed his lips skeptically.†   (source)
  • He was well versed in the legend of the Honorable Reuben V. Atlee, who, like most old, seasoned, and often cranky Chancellors in Mississippi, ruled with an iron fist and was often skeptical of outsiders.†   (source)
  • It's hard to see his expression in the dark, but his voice sounds both skeptical and wry.†   (source)
  • Aven and Jack exchanged skeptical glances, but Bert smiled broadly, as did Bug.†   (source)
  • My family was a family of commentary and intellect and skepticism.†   (source)
  • He paused and looked at Thomas with skepticism.†   (source)
  • Their founder, William Miller, had been an Army officer in the War of 1812, but the killing he witnessed caused him to become a skeptic.†   (source)
  • And I could tell she was skeptical, but she gathered herself up and tried her best to be happy for me.†   (source)
  • Unlike Tribesmen, Scholars are not superstitious, and Darin has always had a Scholar's healthy skepticism.†   (source)
  • Rowan wrote that he would remain skeptical "until we make more black parents understand the value of reading in the home, until more teachers force ghetto students to read newspapers and magazines, and at least try to resist peer-group pressures to downgrade standard English.†   (source)
  • With honest skepticism, I asked her how she could be so sure, and she said that the exact same thing had happened to her parents about a year ago, and that everything worked itself out, and that, by the way, was why her mom got that slick new BMW for Christmas and, of course, why Jenny now has her own car.†   (source)
  • Attentive, but skeptical, But not egoistic.†   (source)
  • For the skeptics I address here this evening-and that is most of you-here is statistical proof!†   (source)
  • Seventy years old, pale and thin, white-haired, clean-shaven and immaculate in his flowing black robes, Thompson's face was fixed in a look of sternness and skepticism that should be required of all high judges.†   (source)
  • The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians.†   (source)
  • "Why?" asked Courtney, oozing skepticism.†   (source)
  • His response held compassion laced with skepticism.†   (source)
  • Smith was probably skeptical.†   (source)
  • Archie had been surprised at the ripple of doubt and skepticism from the members of The Vigils.†   (source)
  • We were all still very skeptical.†   (source)
  • Nicolo asked skeptically, in the way that people of suppressed dreams often preclude their own possibilities.†   (source)
  • "The consensus of the best metallurgical authorities," he said, "seems to be highly skeptical about Rearden Metal, contending—"†   (source)
  • Many of my early traits remain, including skepticism about religious authority, curiosity about the world, and the lofty desire to live a righteous life.†   (source)
  • Brunet was skeptical—Luis rarely spoke and was a bit of a cipher—but when he whipped together a ham-and-cheese omelet, Brunet was impressed.†   (source)
  • Even the skeptical barbarian was confident that Guenhwyvar would figure out where it best fit in.†   (source)
  • Branna tilted her head, her beautiful face skeptical.†   (source)
  • This seemed to be a meaningful incident as long as he considered it to be meaningful—but as soon as skepticism reasserted itself, the moment appeared to be utterly without import.†   (source)
  • I look at him skeptically.†   (source)
  • "Romeo and Juliet?" she said skeptically.†   (source)
  • And by indulging in excesses of jealousy and worry, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute skepticism and irresolution.†   (source)
  • They seemed to pause, so that I might actually do something, but the retired doctor had been regarding me most skeptically and then purposefully set about his business, asking someone else to run and call for an ambulance.†   (source)
  • I remained skeptical about this even after reading hundreds of such statements, both Union and Confederate.†   (source)
  • To hear such news from the mouth of an Israeli would only invite skepticism, something they could not afford.†   (source)
  • Measure was pretty skeptical.†   (source)
  • At least five people who witnessed Pau Pau's miracle that day told me about one skeptic and unbeliever who just brushed his bare hand against the unhot stove to prove the whole thing was a fake.†   (source)
  • If the cadre had been aware of my skepticism they would have run me out of the barracks within twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • We must give them the material and remain skeptical to their conclusions.†   (source)
  • In any event, I was skeptical about the happy relationship which Ootek postulated as existing between caribou and wolf.†   (source)
  • And once in an extravagant piece of waggery, speaking of reincarnation (about which he said he was not so skeptical as to rule it beyond possibility), he claimed to have been in a past life the only Jewish Albigensian monk—a brilliant friar named St. Nathan le Bon who had singlehandedly promulgated that crazy sect's obsessive penchant for self-destruction, which was based on the reasoning that if life is evil, it is necessary to hasten life's end.†   (source)
  • He was also skeptical, annoyed.†   (source)
  • Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest.†   (source)
  • Don't shake your head so skeptically.†   (source)
  • The bronc I was riding had so far shown no real itch for trouble, but I was a skeptic, and I kept remembering that shying for even a small drop-off.†   (source)
  • Walking from his hotel to the city auditorium on a beautiful spring night, Norris anxiously noted that more than three thousand people—the concerned, the skeptical and the curious—had filled the auditorium, with many standing in the aisles and outside in the street.†   (source)
  • They had all the afternoon to be together, and nearly all of the night, since Madame Williams had her seances on Saturday night and preferred that Elizabeth, before whose silent skepticism departed spirits might find themselves reluctant to speak, should not be in the house.†   (source)
  • From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed, power-hungry people, and the growth of liberalism and skepticism in their own ranks.   (source)
    skepticism = doubt (that something is true)
  • Lou looked skeptical.   (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (unbelieving)
  • "I feel quite sure that you will soon see a great improvement in me in this respect, Marilla."
    "I'm sure I hope so," said Marilla skeptically.   (source)
    skeptically = with doubt (regarding the truth of something)
  • Edward asked skeptically, one eyebrow curving upward.†   (source)
  • Zaman listened, his expression revealing neither belief nor skepticism.†   (source)
  • He eyed us skeptically, a couple in a minivan with two toddlers and family pet in tow.†   (source)
  • Zabini gave a tiny little cough that was clearly supposed to indicate amused skepticism.†   (source)
  • Nelson stared at me with such pure, annoyed skepticism I was tempted to doubt my own word.†   (source)
  • The anger in Kaede's eyes has turned into skepticism.†   (source)
  • Katherine glanced over, her pretty eyes flashing skepticism.†   (source)
  • Lindsay, with the benefit of age and wisdom, viewed all of the men skeptically.†   (source)
  • The others looked at me skeptically, then at Annabeth.†   (source)
  • "Did you enjoy that?" she asked skeptically.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a look of deep skepticism behind Dumbledore's back.†   (source)
  • If I'm really free," I added, heavy on the skepticism, "maybe we could double."†   (source)
  • In other states, we were met with similar skepticism and resistance.†   (source)
  • We can again draw a parallel with Socrates, who did not accept the skepticism of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • She glared at me, her expression stiff with skepticism.†   (source)
  • "Am I even allowed in there?" he asked skeptically.†   (source)
  • Langdon could see the skepticism on Sophie's face and certainly understood.†   (source)
  • I can all but see Mama's lips tighten skeptically.†   (source)
  • "You've got two quarts of arsenic on you?" she asked skeptically.†   (source)
  • "And what exactly did I say?" asked Hermione, her tone somewhere between skepticism and curiosity.†   (source)
  • "Are you really going through admissions?" his skepticism was obvious even through his thick accent.†   (source)
  • "There's not even a cloud in the sky," Jenny observed skeptically.†   (source)
  • Mullet Fingers fingered the camera skeptically.†   (source)
  • The agent's head tilted to one side, his skepticism evident.†   (source)
  • He waited, his face full of worry and skepticism.†   (source)
  • "Let me ask you something," she said, clearly not appreciating his skepticism.†   (source)
  • Well, in any case, it's healthier to approach such books with a decent portion of skepticism.†   (source)
  • He paused, and I looked at him skeptically for several seconds.†   (source)
  • Collet had been blessed with a chance to redeem his skepticism and earlier blunders.†   (source)
  • I've known you a long time, and your skepticism is one of your greatest strengths as an academic.†   (source)
  • David's initial claim that Bram was his grandfather was met with skepticism.†   (source)
  • David ignored Connor and looked skeptically at the creature.†   (source)
  • "I thought you didn't believe in destiny," said Emma, assessing me skeptically.†   (source)
  • The skepticism on your face proves that my cover story is tight.†   (source)
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