How To Use Incredulity In A Sentence
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It provides the answer to a question they asked me with genuine incredulity.
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He gave a brittle laugh and shook his head, eyebrows raised in incredulity.
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Another point to bear in mind is that all the books on the shortlist have flaws - of course, all books have flaws of some kind, but crime fiction does tend to suffer from cliche, formula and incredulity somewhat more than most, and these downsides canbe applied at times to all the titles on the shortlist, Ithink.
Books
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The universal incredulity of the hackery is palpable even through the dead medium of television.
Brown's Payola Goverment Dips Into the Pork Barrel
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The best way I can describe my reaction is some mix of puzzlement and incredulity.
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We are excused by ignorance or incredulity no more than by neglect.
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Mr. Hughes, who offers a popular history of Rome and Roman art from antiquity to the present, finds himself more or less forced into the waggish incredulity of so many Anglo-Saxon writers at the bizarre annals of the papacy's temporal power.
The Heirloom City
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Presumably, now that one can just buy them a damn beer instead of sneaking them a mickey, they should be able to get a record review that isn't prefaced with the critic's incredulity that such young'uns should be so focused.
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This time, the looks Em and Mona exchanged were one and the same: utter incredulity.
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When it is propagated by a petroleum company, suspicion turns to incredulity.
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When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
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When I tell my Catholic confrères that in Lutheran seminary we were taught that every minute of a twenty or thirty minute sermon should be preceded by at least an hour of preparation, they respond with incredulity.
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The incredulity displayed is akin to watching a piano-playing chicken bang out Rachmaninoff.
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When she finally got through, her relief was inflected with incredulity: for the first time, her usually diligent daughter had overslept, and missed the bus.
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'You packed my socks and chuddies!' his father said, holding up the things with a look of incredulity.
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As Vivaldi expressed his incredulity, however, he returned to examine the garment once more, when, as he raised it, he observed, what had before escaped his notice, black drapery mingled with the heap beneath; and, on lifting this also on the point of his sword, he perceived part of the habiliment of a monk!
The Italian
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Then, to his horror, and no doubt incredulity, a dozen or so crabs appear and march toward him.
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This was met with incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a second -- I bending down, she stretching up -- our faces were neighbors, and I had time to see her expression undergo several lightning changes -- surprise, incredulity, and a few others not as easy to read -- before she retired, leaving Tibe to me.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
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Jim went off for his first day at work in a mood of tender incredulity, still unable to stop smiling.
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I read five paragraphs with incredulity and mounting horror.
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The message was greeted with anger and incredulity by Syria experts and opposition activists.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, to the odd gasp of incredulity, he has pitched his campaign as that of an anti-elitist insurgent, talking up his working-class upbringing near Warrington and bemoaning his old colleagues 'bedazzlement with wealth, glamour and influence.
Labour leadership: The contenders
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At which point they fixed me a look that was a mix of pity and incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The piece is written with an almost amused incredulity at the sheer gall of the scheme.
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There is barely a frame of this film that doesn't invite ridicule and incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The press just gaped with their jaws open and tongue hanging out in utter incredulity.
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Arguments from incredulity wallow in a vulgar populism that elevates appeal to unlearned prejudice to a categorical imperative.
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His ignorance has provoked incredulity in New York.
Times, Sunday Times
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The announcement has been met with incredulity.
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Yet zoologists have consistently reacted to these phenomena with a mixture of incredulity, confusion, and even outright hostility.
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A brief glimpse of his story and it is easy to understand his incredulity.
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Her expression is usually one of barely concealed incredulity.
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At present I mainly gaze upon it with a sense of incredulity and delight.
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When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
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Instead, I was met with incredulity and anger.
Times, Sunday Times
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If told they were doing so, they would express incredulity and scorn.
Christianity Today
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When I came across this page of disclaimer stickers for science textbooks, I had to laugh, although my laughter is heavily tinged with incredulity.
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Mitchell returned my look of incredulity with one of her own.
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The incredulity, thinking further back, at all the trivia through the last decade we got ourselves worked up over.
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I listened with incredulity to how a "mad scientist Mr. Yacub" had genetically "grafted" the white race from an original black people.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The expression on her face caught between amusement and utter incredulity.
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As Jack continued on droning about how Chin dislike anime, Zack's head was swarming with questions & incredulity.
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This time he certainly saw blank incomprehension mixed with a liberal dollop of incredulity.
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When she told her family she was gay, they reacted with a mixture of shock and incredulity.
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This was met with incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Isn't it time the designated mouthpieces of the political-financial complex wiped that look of incredulity off their faces?
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Hawke persisted in it, despite a high level of incredulity, bordering on ridicule, in the media.
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Then they began to cry up parties again: the Diabolonians cried Up old Incredulity, Forget-Good, the new aldermen, and their great one Diabolus; and the other party, they as fast cried up Shaddai, the captains, his laws, their mercifulness, and applauded their conditions and ways.
The Holy War
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On a very simple level, when presented with an alethic quirk like this, something which "could not happen," there is a response of incredulity to be expected.
On the Sublime
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Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
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Now, I'm sure that many readers' hair is standing on end with incredulity.
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The avalanche of incredulity, ridicule and scepticism that greeted anyone who came out as a "tweeter" in those early days is hard to imagine now, five years on.
Twitter's five-year evolution from ridicule to dissidents' tool
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As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
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I print this in capital letters merely to emphasise the tone of incredulity with which my colleague, Michael Grant recounted this tale to me from Orlando.
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My flip, polite persona masks a smouldering and wrathy incredulity as I learn that another revivalist is stepping up to accept officialdom's accolade.
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His campaign voiced incredulity at the claim that the county's Republicans couldn't have braved a snowstorm that dropped six inches to vote.
Paul Campaign Challenges Romney's Maine Win
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The idea was greeted with incredulity by people questioned by the Today programme near a crash hotspot in north London.
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There is barely a frame of this film that doesn't invite ridicule and incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before I am struck dumb by incredulity, you might like to know that this test was carried out in the name of research into the theory that women sniff out ideal mates.
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The finale is where the true incredulity is borne, as our hero (spoiler alert!)
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Even at the time this pledge was made, the reaction was one of scepticism and incredulity.
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Martin emitted a long, low whistle of incredulity, then proceeded to resurrect and read a carbon copy of "The Palmist.
Chapter 29
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Unlike English, Arabic thematic fronting may express incredulity, disbelief, suspicion, uncertainty, denial, limitation and/or exclusiveness on the part of the subject or the object.
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Obviously grateful for that flash of candor, he started groping for the words that might express his incredulity.
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At which point they fixed me a look that was a mix of pity and incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before I could signal my incredulity he winked and nodded at a diagram pinned to the wall.
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Unlike many Americans, whose immediate response was incredulity, he says he knew instinctively that it was a deliberate act.
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That the moneyman should be the one to fall on his sword was greeted with incredulity in the art world.
A House Divided
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Reaction from the "locals" is predictably sadness and from our visitors and tourists comes the silence of incredulity.
Dog urine causes cancer not pesticides?
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MPs and peers expressed incredulity that they could have missed the scandal under their noses.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is barely a frame of this film that doesn't invite ridicule and incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The press just gaped with their jaws open and tongue hanging out in utter incredulity.
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Athlete tests positive, athlete feigns disbelief and incredulity and throws questions in every direction.
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As a third generation licensed victualler (now retired) I have been following the saga of the Wheatley Hotel with a mixture of amusement and incredulity.
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‘They went crazy,’ he declares with utter incredulity.
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But chemistry is often misunderstood, in two ways: in the one case, by the incredulity of total ignorance; in the other, by the overcredulity of imperfect knowledge.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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He felt a sense of incredulity, anger and pain at the accusation made against him.
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The most shocking is the inconsolable grief of friends and family members, combined with anger and incredulity at lives cut short.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her successive statements were received with the proper expressions of amusement, incredulity and gratitude.
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This was met with incredulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those that, to confute their incredulity, desire to see apparitions, shall, questionless, never behold any, nor have the power to be so much as witches.
Religio Medici
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Drawn at first by my incredulity that anyone would actually name a product “Nads”, I quickly got sucked in by the fun Australian accents, the video (shown over and over) of a wife waxing her husband’s back hair, and the infectious exuberance of the product demonstrators.
And If You Call Now … « Snarkmarket
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He talked on, trying hard not to let her listless air of incredulity freeze the marrow of his bones and the blood in his veins, or cut him so deeply as to destroy his enrooted hope in their splendid future.
The Way of the Wind
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He who desires properly to appreciate the profound wisdom of the institution of which he is the disciple, must not be content, with uninquiring credulity, to accept all the traditions that are imparted to him as veritable histories; nor yet, with unphilosophic incredulity, to reject them in a mass, as fabulous inventions.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
