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disbelief

noun as in doubt, skepticism

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I’ve spent a lot of time since in utter disbelief at how wrong those assumptions turned out to be.

The contrast shook Washington’s attorney general, Karl Racine, who seemed to be almost in disbelief on CNN Wednesday evening.

Haley Stevens, a Democratic representative of Michigan, expressed her disbelief.

From Fortune

Fields lifted his hands to his helmet in disbelief after a miscommunication with his receiver led to Clemson’s game-sealing interception.

In online chat groups and forums, political rage and disbelief metastasizes into calls for violence.

The disbelief was evident in article after article, with one conservative site using “President Pinocchio” in its headline.

But, even given the necessary suspension of disbelief, does it work?

In fact, enjoying the show takes an extreme dedication to suspending disbelief.

This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

Daniels laughs at himself, once again shaking his head in disbelief.

He hid himself in Assouan with belief for a companion, he came back and found that companion had been but a masquerader—disbelief.

So atheism, and the disbelief of the existence of the soul after death, characterized that materialism.

When a liar speaks the truth he finds his punishment in the general disbelief.

With or amongst the Romanists to leave the shore is an act of disbelief which must be atoned for by penance or punishment.

I stared at him in disbelief and said, "Oh, Mr. Spardleton, this is no time to play games with me."

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disbelief, such as: distrust, incredulity, mistrust, atheism, dubiety, and nihilism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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