Sample Sentences for
skeptical
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    She is skeptical any time someone says it is important she pay them a lot for a car repair.
    skeptical = doubtful
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    "Did you hear Celeste say something?" He sounded skeptical.  (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true or correct)
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    When she went back and still returned empty-handed, she lied that there was no one home. "No one home?" Mama was skeptical.  (source)
    skeptical = doubtful (that something is true)
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    "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)
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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)
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    "Right," she said, skeptically.  (source)
    skeptically = with doubt (regarding the truth of something)
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    If you are sceptical, Mr Stevens, perhaps you will care to step out here and observe for yourself.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use skeptical.
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    Spots of colour appeared high on his cheeks, his scepticism giving way to something else.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use skepticism.
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    How, asks the skeptic from the balcony, did you know he loved you?†  (source)
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    I admit that at the first I was sceptic.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use skeptic.
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    Skeptics had urged him to stop his foolishness and hire an architect.  (source)
    Skeptics = people who had doubts
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    "Is Mr. Pike a good dresser?" asked Mrs. Fletcher sceptically.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use skeptically.
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    On the other hand, when they believe in us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use skeptics.
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