All 4 Uses of
incredulous
in
Babbitt
- In the taxicab Babbitt incredulously found tears crowding into his eyes.†
Chpt 20
- Babbitt incredulously saw that it was Chum Frink.
Chpt 23 *incredulously = with disbelief
- With his head throbbing, his tongue and lips stinging from cigarettes, he incredulously counted the number of drinks he had taken, and groaned, "I got to quit!"†
Chpt 29
- Incredulously he remembered that he had by his roaring familiarity with them laid himself open to the patronizing of youths whom he would have kicked out of his office; that by dancing too ardently he had exposed himself to rebukes from the rattiest of withering women.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(incredulous) unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected