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UK
/ɪnkɹˈɛdjʊləsli/
]
ADVERB
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in an incredulous manner
the woman looked up at her incredulously
How To Use incredulously In A Sentence
- Ben listened to him incredulously.
- the woman looked up at her incredulously
- Incredulously I asked him, "What do you mean by that?"
- "You can't be serious," Chloe said incredulously.
- He waited, while Abel and Nicolo looked incredulously from the map to him, and then at each other. Spice and the Devil's Cave
- I have checked three other dictionaries, one of which did not show ‘incredulously’ as an acceptable adverbial form; however, the Oxford dictionary did show it as a valid entry.
- He couldn't talk of anything else when I-- you don't mean to say "-- incredulously --" that he made a success of that! The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
- She talks about going bowling on an off day during the filming of “New Moon” — candlepin bowling, it sounds like from her description — and how difficult it was to keep score without the electronic aids present at most bowling alleys: “They handed me a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had to do the score by hand,” she says incredulously. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS JUNE 23: ECLIPSE PREMIERE, STEPHENIE MEYER & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
- Elizabeth, who was regarded in her set as a wit, a reputation acquired by reason of the fact that she possessed a certain knack for adapting slang humorously (for there was no originality to her alleged wit), now bent her head and looked at her brother incredulously. Kindred of the Dust
- Amy and Carrie paused their aimless conversation to look at me, incredulously.