All 7 Uses

skeptical
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The Magic Mountain
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And you are a dyed-in-the-wool critic and skeptic, if I do say so!†
Chpt 5.1 *
As she said her good-byes, Frau Stohr wept great tears, the unsalty, free-flowing tears of the uncultured; and in the next moment, behind Joachim's back, she turned to the teacher, shook her head, and wagged one hand, its fingers splayed—her sour expression reflecting a vulgar skepticism about Joachim's permission to depart and how he would manage now.†
Chpt 6.4

skepticism = doubt (that something is true)
The honest old scholar suffered every abuse imaginable as a result of young Leo's intellectual obstinacy, captiousness, skepticism, contrariness, and cutting dialectical logic.†
Chpt 6.6
Frau Stohr, as we know, had felt that way from the first; she found her own vulgar skepticism, with which she had sent Joachim on his way down to the flatlands, confirmed, and did not mind praising herself for it.†
Chpt 6.8
Cam miof When the moral courage to decide and differentiate between fraud and reality begins to melt away, that marks the end of life itself, of formed opinions, of values, of any improving deed, and the corruptive process of moral skepticism begins its awful work.†
Chpt 7.8
To which he replied that in that regard he would maintain all due humility and the freedom of skepticism.†
Chpt 7.9
The Absolute, the holy terror these times require, can arise only out of the most radical skepticism, out of moral chaos.†
Chpt 7.9

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