incredulous
Collocations
5ADJ.
fearful, other
VERB + INCREDULOUS
don't, gave, listened
INCREDULOUS + NOUN
astonishment, contentment, front, story
PREP.
in, in, with
ADV.
completely
Definitions
adj
Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
In safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when they are standing on the peak.
Expressing or indicative of incredulity.
Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
Then came a report over the radio from one of St. Los pilots. He was reporting seeing ships, and they weren't American. Worse still, they were close. Incredulous', Admiral Sprague demanded confirmation, and, circling in closer, the pilot radioed back: "I can see pagoda masts. I see the biggest meatball flag on the biggest battleship I ever saw!"
Difficult to believe; incredible.
Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance […].
Maybe David Ruben had some valid points about the ACLU on the national level from an historical perspective, although critcizing a non-gay organization for not loudly defending gay rights in 1952 seems a little incredulous.
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6Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.
WiktionaryIn safe flats and dark restaurants, never the same one twice, we ate quiet meals, exchanged our goods and gazed upon each other with the incredulous contentment that passes between mountaineers when t
WiktionaryReactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous.
WiktionaryHe was incredulous of the story.
Tatoeba · #291400Tom was incredulous.
Tatoeba · #3727779Tom remained silent, his mouth agape. He was completely incredulous in front of such trickery and bad faith.
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