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sceptic

[skep-tik] / ˈskɛp tɪk /
NOUN
iconoclast
Synonyms
STRONG
critic cynic dissenter dissident heretic nonbeliever questioner radical rebel revolutionist ruiner unbeliever
WEAK
denouncer image-breaker non-conformist
Antonyms
STRONG
believer

Example Sentences

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Describing himself as a "romantic sceptic", Lewis said a lot of the people he spoke to "were remarkably articulate".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

So does Kennedy - probably the country's most famous vaccine sceptic – have a point, or is he making a monumental miscalculation?

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

Kennedy, though, has hired David Geier, a noted vaccine sceptic, to look again at the data.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Both sceptic and believer could probably walk away from Starthpeffer satisfied.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

In the Stone Age, the sceptic would have been rash indeed who ventured to contradict it.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)