Sample sentences for INCREDULOUS

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Definition

unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

incredulous = difficult to believe

incredulous = finding something hard to believe

Mortati stared in incredulous shock as the man walked in.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

incredulous = unbelieving

"And it took you this long to realize it?" asked Max, incredulous.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

Both looked faintly incredulous, as if she were a talking cockroach.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

incredulous = disbelieving

  "'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.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

incredulously = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

But, however it may be regarded by the incredulous, I know that it is full of living truths.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

incredulous = unbelieving

incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

I asked him whether he
were talking about the singer, Maria Vasak.

"You know? You have heard, maybe?" he asked incredulously.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

incredulously = with difficulty accepting something so unexpected

"When God wants me, he'll take me," he told an incredulous Pete.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

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.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

incredulous = unbelieving

Holly was incredulous. 'A casualty of war? How can you say that? A life is a life.'
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

incredulous = unbelieving

incredulous = having difficulty accepting something so unexpected

asked the incredulous director of Consular Operations.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

incredulous = unbelieving

...this country displayed to an incredulous world what greatness was possible to man, what happiness was possible on earth.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

incredulous = unbelieving

"Will they shoot Fiedler for that?" asked Liz incredulously.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

incredulously = with disbelief; or with difficulty accepting something so unexpected

"He was stealing," I say.

"What? Of course not!" he shouts, incredulous.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker

incredulous = unbelieving

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