as in disbelief
refusal to accept something as true
the teacher's incredulity about the claims in the essay proved to be well-founded
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Recent Examples of incredulity
And the typical response is often one of incredulity, if not outrage.
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Joe Kwaczala, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
Neither Jimenez nor Beame take themselves too seriously and there is a lightness to this piece, which is graced with incredulity and humor.
—Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
In both cases, the incredulity at what had just happened swiftly gave way to morbid curiosity about what might happen next, if the jihadists proceeded to the capital.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
But incredulity won’t help arrest the ascendance of right-wing populism.
—Ece Temelkuran, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2020
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Joe Kwaczala, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
Neither Jimenez nor Beame take themselves too seriously and there is a lightness to this piece, which is graced with incredulity and humor.
—Longreads, 19 Dec. 2024
In both cases, the incredulity at what had just happened swiftly gave way to morbid curiosity about what might happen next, if the jihadists proceeded to the capital.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
But incredulity won’t help arrest the ascendance of right-wing populism.
—Ece Temelkuran, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2020
See All Example Sentences for incredulity
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“Incredulity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredulity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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