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incredulous
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  • "I hope it's Four's landscape."
    "Why?" I ask. The question comes out too incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving (skeptical)
  • Laila pictured him as he must have been an hour, or maybe minutes, earlier, rushing from one room to another, slamming doors, furious and incredulous, cursing under his breath.   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • They traveled, spoke with wise men, performed miracles for the incredulous, and owned the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • I turned incredulously. "You saw Leper?"
    "I saw him ... hiding in the shrubbery next to the chapel."   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Spencer stared at Andrew incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief or surprise
  • "He thought Clarissa was George Harvey?" My mother stopped, incredulous, just outside the visitors' area.
    "It was dark out, Abigail. I think he only saw the girl's flashlight."   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unbelievable
  • "'Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as though their hearts would break."
    The two young people stared at each other. "You?" breathed Kit incredulously.
    Nat laughed. "I'll have you know that I was only eight years old," he explained.   (source)
    incredulously = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • When the jury was polled by the incredulous judge, Carter was the only juror who recorded his vote as guilty.   (source)
  • They were twins, and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication.   (source)
    incredulous = finding it hard to believe
  • DANFORTH, pointing at Abigail, incredulously: This child would murder your wife?   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief
  • "Dead?" said the old man. "Good gracious me, no, we have but slept."
    "Slept?" said Arthur incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • He was incredulous, but his voice came out sounding uninterested, ...   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  •   "But you accidentally turned your own daughter to gold," Piper remembered. "And you realized how greedy you'd been. So you repented."
      "Repented!" King Midas looked at Lit incredulously. "You see, son? You're away for a few thousand years, and the story gets twisted all around."   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief or surprise
  • Holly was incredulous. 'A casualty of war? How can you say that? A life is a life.'   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • "Is that you?" he asked incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • “We need to start casting off lines.”
    “Do you know how many lines she's got on her right now?” he said, incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Something outside the possibility of rational justification was taking place in front of my incredulous eyes.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • "That was him you were talking about?" Kelly said incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "Elsie? What in blue blazes are you looking at?"
    "Sputnik, Homer."
    "Over West Virginia?" His tone was incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • When Kathy told him that Zeitoun was still in New Orleans, Rob was incredulous.   (source)
  • Mo was staring incredulously at the book in Capricorn's hand as if he expected it to dissolve into thin air at any moment.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "The days are gone," he told us, "when you can kick us around like dogs." By now Baby Kochamma sounded utterly convincing. Injured. Incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelievable
  • Both looked faintly incredulous, as if she were a talking cockroach.   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • He studied the announcement, shook his head incredulously and read on,   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Now he was incredulous and stood again to his feet.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • He received the eighteen-carat Golden Orchid and kissed it with joy in the midst of the thundering jeers of the incredulous.   (source)
  • She looks incredulous. "You've stopped?" She frowns and looks at me again, as if to verify that she is really talking to the right person. "You can't do that."   (source)
  • "Don't they have any anesthetic?" I asked incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • He stares at me, incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • I looked at Wilquins incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • As the taxi drove off in a cloud of dust, Jason asked incredulously, "Are you sure we're in the right place?"   (source)
  • "You believe them?" Miro asked, incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "Sing to Lorie?" Dish said, incredulous. "Why, I'd be so scared I'd choke."   (source)
  • Freddie was incredulous.   (source)
  • ... he repeated, incredulous,   (source)
  • 'Does he expect us to believe that?' cried the major incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = finding it hard to believe
  • she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Prize.   (source)
    incredulously = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "..." I asked incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "New York Times?" he says, and laughs out loud. I am not sure if he is happy for me, or incredulous,   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • His eyes had become less incredulous, more accusing.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Max was incredulous; he could not imagine anyone wanting to hunt or hurt or kill anything so graceful and giving.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • ...this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • GEORGE (Incredulous): You're amused?   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • He studied her incredulous face before he leaned back.   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "He was stealing," I say.
    "What? Of course not!" he shouts, incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • asked the incredulous director of Consular Operations.   (source)
  • Alessandro asked incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief over something unexpected
  • "You didn't see Titanic?" Her incredulous voice followed me as I began swimming hard for the boat.   (source)
    incredulous = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "Can you believe Sally Jean picked all this out?" she whispered incredulously. "I mean, the salesperson must've helped her, ..."   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • If I were bold enough to ask: "But what about such and such a thing?" she would look at me incredulously and say: "Well, what about it?"   (source)
  • Then incredulously, she had seen him bend over and stealthily move toward her, and...   (source)
    incredulously = with a feeling of such surprise that it is difficult to believe (what she is seeing)
  • Incredulous, the white man said: "You can read that headline?"   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Gentlemen, I am happy to have met you.
    (Before their incredulous expression.) Yes yes, sincerely happy.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • He rises, incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "Will they shoot Fiedler for that?" asked Liz incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • I looked at him incredulously.   (source)
  • In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Vera said incredulously: "I don't believe it."   (source)
    incredulously = in disbelief
  • A very stout blonde squaw stepped across the threshold and stood looking at the strangers staring incredulously, her mouth open.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief
  •   Stella [slowly and emphatically]: I'm not in anything I want to get out of.
      Blanche [incredulously]: What - Stella?   (source)
    incredulously = not believing what she's heard
  • For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at him convinced me otherwise. ... With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter.   (source)
    incredulous = disbelieving
  • And he said, incredulously, "But you're back."   (source)
    incredulously = finding it hard to believe
  • They tried hard to hold it in, but enough incredulous laughter burst out of their eyes and leaked from the corners of their mouths to inform anyone of their thoughts.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • the Vicar is a man who has been so long engaged in watering down the faith to make it easier for supposedly incredulous and hard-headed congregation   (source)
  • ...it was not until the name was repeated again, the voice incredulous, slightly raised, that I became aware, with a rush of colour to my face, that I had blundered irretrievably,   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "She would be stunned and incredulous at the first signs of my gentility," said Rhett, arising lightly.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • They stare at him in bewildered, incredulous confusion.   (source)
    incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "A church?" The priest ran his hands incredulously over the wall like a blind man trying to recognize a particular house, but he was too tired to feel anything at all.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "A Coke ..." he began incredulously...   (source)
  • McBryde gave a faint, incredulous smile, and started rummaging in the drawer.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Martin walked past the window and incredulously saw that Sondelius was growing old.   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepted (the realization)
  • I asked him whether he were talking about the singer, Maria Vasak.
    "You know? You have heard, maybe?" he asked incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Archer looked at her incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief
  • When he spoke to his young topmates about it they were either lightly incredulous or found something comical in his unconcealed anxiety.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.   (source)
    incredulously = surprised by something so unexpected
  • "We've had him two weeks now, and if anything he's wilder than ever at the present moment."
    "Give 'm a chance," Matt counselled.  "Turn 'm loose for a spell."
    The other looked at him incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • But the Comtesse shook her head, still incredulously.   (source)
  • And then, while some of the other prisoners gathered round he told his wild story; most of them were incredulous, but Duane knew that Jurgis could never have made up such a yarn as that.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • The new guests were frankly incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = not believing
  • My life is shaken to its roots; ... I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = not believing; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • The prince began to be a little incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = not believing
  • "Nora" ("looking incredulously at her").   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief
  • Tom looked surprised and incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • But the incredulous Stuart was not convinced,   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Stepan Arkadyevitch took the letter, looked with incredulous surprise at the lusterless eyes fixed so immovably on him, and began to read.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "I don't see why you should be incredulous," said Mrs. Almond.   (source)
    incredulous = not believing
  • ...Estella looked at me merely with incredulous wonder,   (source)
    incredulous = finding it difficult to believe
  • He was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • But, however it may be regarded by the incredulous, I know that it is full of living truths.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Besides, you can tell them that you have full confidence in me, and they will not be more incredulous than you.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving (or doubtful)
  • ...then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.   (source)
    incredulous = doubtful (not believing)
  • You may look incredulous, if you please!   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • the ear that has never heard anything but abuse is strangely incredulous of anything so heavenly as kindness; and Topsy only thought Eva's speech something funny and inexplicable,--she did not believe it.   (source)
  • "No, no!" exclaimed Hepzibah incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • For some minutes he remained speechless and motionless, looking incredulously at my friend with open mouth, and...   (source)
  • The magistrate appeared at first perfectly incredulous, but as I continued he became more attentive and interested;   (source)
    incredulous = not believing
  • demanded the still incredulous Indian.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Though suspicion was very far from Miss Bennet's general habits, she was absolutely incredulous here.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Grandma is incredulous.†   (source)
  • She looks at him, incredulous.†   (source)
  • Her pencilled eyebrows were plucked into a smoothly arched line, giving her that expression of boredom and, at the same time, incredulous astonishment, which was cultivated by the film stars of that era, though I doubt that Winifred was ever much astonished.†   (source)
  • She stood in the aisle and looked at him, incredulous.†   (source)
  • Peter shoots me an incredulous look.†   (source)
  • "Who asked you to do this?" my brother asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • I asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • Lale is incredulous.†   (source)
  • Paul was incredulous.†   (source)
  • I asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • When the sheriff explained the charge in crude terms, Walter was incredulous and couldn't help but laugh at the notion.†   (source)
  • My mother was incredulous.†   (source)
  • Mark said incredulously.†   (source)
  • Reynie and Sticky agreed, but Constance was incredulous.†   (source)
  • Dorian looked to Chaol, who failed in his attempt to not appear incredulous.†   (source)
  • Kaede gives me an incredulous look, but I ignore her.†   (source)
  • "The whole rest of the day?" the boy says, incredulous.†   (source)
  • Again, the amazed adjustments, the incredulous repetition.†   (source)
  • Incredulous, he touched the bloody wound.†   (source)
  • He looked across the table to the incredulous faces.†   (source)
  • I say, incredulous, but he shrugs like it's nothing.†   (source)
  • You mean it's free?" he asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • Mr. Poe asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • He got through the A's before looking up and noticing my incredulous stare.†   (source)
  • "Arya?" she called out incredulously.†   (source)
  • St. Clair is incredulous.†   (source)
  • My dad ran both hands through his hair; he looked boyish, dazed, incredulous.†   (source)
  • When the yelling stops they both stand looking at each other, a hurtful scowl on Mark's face, an incredulous grin on Sarah's.†   (source)
  • Hoyt looked incredulous.†   (source)
  • -II CORINTHIANS 9:8 Still, when the file on Michael Oher from the Memphis City School system hit his desk, Simpson was frankly incredulous.†   (source)
  • The sergeant was incredulous, until Prendergast gave him the revolver, which smelled strongly of blown powder.†   (source)
  • He was incredulous and then proud to find he could hold his breath without strain for two minutes.†   (source)
  • The incredulous questions have come, as they often do, in response to my innocent suggestion that Mr. Lindner is the devil.†   (source)
  • Sophie asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • "What gives you the slightest impression that I would be here when you came back?" he asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • I asked, still incredulous.†   (source)
  • Pumpkin said incredulously.†   (source)
  • Marcia's face was incredulous.†   (source)
  • An incredulous smile dawned on her face.†   (source)
  • The guards were incredulous.†   (source)
  • Ximena asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • I stare at her incredulously.†   (source)
  • "But the storm's over," Caroline said, and the boy laughed, excited and incredulous.†   (source)
  • asked Hazel incredulously.†   (source)
  • I gave him what I hoped was an incredulous look.†   (source)
  • MacPherson grunted incredulously.†   (source)
  • I was incredulous.†   (source)
  • Putin asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • Incredulous, Aunt J contradicted, Best let water passed under the bridge keep on trickling downstream.†   (source)
  • Felicity shakes her head, incredulous.†   (source)
  • She seemed incredulous that I'd choose to do such a thing.†   (source)
  • Cole said in an incredulous tone, "So you went down into a basement in a house full of dead people in the middle of the night because you heard a sound?†   (source)
  • "Really?" said Janice incredulously.†   (source)
  • Hoerni asked, incredulous.†   (source)
  • I look at her incredulously.†   (source)
  • John said, incredulous.†   (source)
  • Claire shook her head in an incredulous way.†   (source)
  • He was escorted by two incredulous policemen who were ready to arrest him unless he could prove that he really was the son of Senator Trueba, and by a knot of children who were running along behind him throwing garbage at him and laughing.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower asked, incredulous.†   (source)
  • Vlad turned with that amazing speed, dodging another blow, still incredulous that he was capable of such a thing, and saw the ledge behind him.†   (source)
  • Suze is gazing at me incredulously.†   (source)
  • There was a part of her that was incredulous at the idea of Stone impregnating Sister Mary Joseph Praise—who could imagine that?†   (source)
  • Kara hurried over, incredulous.†   (source)
  • I asked, incredulous.†   (source)
  • In the House of Lords in March of 1775, when challenged on the chances of Britain ever winning a war in America, Lord Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, had looked incredulous.†   (source)
  • They surveyed each other now in their nakedness, letting their eyes roam and feed with an incredulous, suspended, mutual hunger.†   (source)
  • She hesitantly approached the fence and stared incredulously into a pair of watery blue eyes.†   (source)
  • An incredulous Kennedy sits up and reads the note.†   (source)
  • Joon faces me fully, giving me an incredulous look.†   (source)
  • He embraced the honor code as his personal catechism, and there was nothing ironic or incredulous in his solemn devotions to its service.†   (source)
  • I ask incredulously.†   (source)
  • Andrew shoots me an incredulous look.†   (source)
  • Drizzt asked incredulously.†   (source)
  • I gave him an incredulous look, wondering if he too wanted to drink my blood.†   (source)
  • She shook her head incredulously.†   (source)
  • "Speaker?" she asked, incredulously.†   (source)
  • They were far too engrossed in their own affairs, which, as I slowly and incredulously began to realize, were at that moment centered around the playing of a game of tag.†   (source)
  • His beefy red face was incredulous as he walked over to me.†   (source)
  • Partway out of the cab, my father poked his nose into the front window and said, in a nearly incredulous voice, "What did I hear you say?"†   (source)
  • When a man came in to pay eighty dollars' worth of parking tickets--such things happened sometimes--he was incredulous.†   (source)
  • This is crazy, he told himself incredulously.†   (source)
  • BOTARD, hands in the pocket of his blouse, wears an incredulous smile and seems to say: 'You won't take me in.'†   (source)
  • It was a soft, almost incredulous laugh that began to escape from Little Lee Roy's tight lips, a little mew of delight.†   (source)
  • NORFOLK (Incredulous) What!†   (source)
  • the incredulous and unbearable amazement   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • She stared at him incredulously.   (source)
    incredulously = in disbelief
  • TOM: ...People go to the movies instead of moving! ... I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
    JIM [incredulously]: Move?   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • Clarke seemed incredulous.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • "Yessuh," Bigger whispered, struggling to control his feelings, hating Jan violently because he knew he was hurting him; wanting to strike Jan with something because Jan's wide, incredulous stare made him feel hot guilt to the very core of him.   (source)
  • Emil looked incredulous, but he did not dispute the point.   (source)
    incredulous = unbelieving
  • Babbitt incredulously saw that it was Chum Frink.   (source)
    incredulously = with disbelief
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