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incredulous

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Definition unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
  • I find it incredulous that you believe she is sincere.
incredulous = difficult to believe
  • At first, she was incredulous—thinking the report was in error.
    • 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
  • Alice stared up at him, eyes wide and incredulous.
    Stephenie Meyer  --  Eclipse
    • 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
  • His face was more incredulous than angry.
    Madeline Miller  --  Circe
    • 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
  • 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
  • He stares at me, incredulous.
    Sara Gruen  --  Water for Elephants
    • 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
  • "But I won," I said, incredulous.
    Alice Sebold  --  Lucky
    • 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
  • The magistrate appeared at first perfectly incredulous, but as I continued he became more attentive and interested;
    Mary Shelley  --  Frankenstein
incredulous = not believing

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