All 3 Uses
skeptical
in
Asylum, by Madeleine Roux
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- To kill the patrons of an entire bar and then wait among the dead for hours ...I admit, even I was skeptical that treatment could help a man so deeply, deeply troubled.†
p. 218.8 *
- The officer had that look on his face, the skeptical one where a smile wasn't a smile but a subtle hint that, while he might be listening, he wasn't the least bit interested in taking a bunch of freaked-out kids seriously.†
p. 233.9
- It sounded ridiculous enough that he didn't blame Abby for her skepticism.†
p. 249.8skepticism = doubt (that something is true)
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)