All 3 Uses
skeptical
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- I asked him one afternoon at age seven, eyeing him skeptically across the card table where he was letting me win at Monopoly.†
p. 14.1 *skeptically = in a doubtful manner (regarding the truth of something)
- "You used Neverleak," Shelley said, eyeing my craftsmanship with a skeptical frown.†
p. 24.3
- It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren—and my own fantastic stories to share.†
p. 352.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(skeptical) doubtful (that something is true or worthwhile)
or more rarely:
generally tending to doubt what others believe - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)