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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incredulous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "A millionaire!" she was incredulous. "Like hell he is!"
▪ "You don't have a car?" asked one incredulous woman.
▪ Everyone looked incredulous when I said I used to drive a taxi.
▪ The announcement was met by incredulous laughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sob rose in his throat, blending with an incredulous, nervous giggle framed by his lips.
▪ I came to sensible awareness; to incredulous understanding.
▪ In view of the latter's steady, incredulous gaze, I could not blame him.
▪ The judges were so incredulous they twice remeasured the length of the course.
▪ With a flourish he removed the cover and revealed to the incredulous eyes of the staff a feast of sausages and bacon.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incredulous

Incredulous \In*cred"u*lous\ (?; 135), a. [L. incredulus. See In- not, and Credulous.]

  1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving.
    --Bacon.

    A fantastical incredulous fool.
    --Bp. Wilkins.

  2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. ``An incredulous smile.''
    --Longfellow.

  3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incredulous

"unbelieving," 1570s, from Latin incredulus "unbelieving, incredulous," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + credulus (see credulous). Formerly also of religious beliefs. Related: Incredulously; incredulousness.

Wiktionary
incredulous

a. 1 skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. (from 16th c.) 2 Expressing or indicative of incredulity. (from 17th c.) 3 (context obsolete except as nonstandard English) Difficult to believe; incredible. (from 17th c.)

WordNet
incredulous

adj. not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: credulous]

Usage examples of "incredulous".

When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.

Kroft may have been trying to pay us a compliment, but his categorization of our marriage was so off target that Bill was incredulous.

Brigham looked incredulous, and Honor chuckled without any humor at all.

When I described the methods employed by The Maids to housecleaning expert Cheryl Mendelson, author of Home Comforts, she was incredulous.

Judge Salas asked about the witnesses and how long the hearing might last, and cast an incredulous look at Nina when told Wish would testify.

Instances such as the one which precipitated a citywide crisis in Thendara a few months before the Sharra Rebellion provoked incredulous laughter in any 12-year-old boy hearing about them.

The dark unicorn stared, incredulous, as the spicewood curl began to burn, sending up a fragrant, smoky plume.

January wolfsbane and their usual quality of lunar stones, and even the most incredulous among us had seen the glass cover of the coffin fog over from the vapor of her breath and we had seen living and fragrant perspiration coming from her pores, and we saw her smile.

Tyson, I am not much of a courtroom actor, and when Brandt and Farley get on the stand and start their version of the bullshit I want to look appropriately incredulous.

Already at the end of September troops and armed burghers were gathering upon the frontier, and the most incredulous were beginning at last to understand that the shadow of a great war was really falling across them.

No one, among the most sceptical, most incredulous, would have been able, would have dared, to suspect Isidore of the slightest infraction of any law of morality.

Of these facts, at the risk of fatiguing repetitions, I have summoned a sufficient number, as I believe, to convince the most incredulous that every attempt to disguise the truth which underlies them all is useless.

Richard Todd shifted uneasily in his seat as she drew herself up and turned her attention to her father, incredulous.

I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl's coyness.

They wept as pitiful, charred faces, turned up towards the Ulysses and alight with joy and hope, petrified into incredulous staring horror, as realisation dawned and the water closed over them.