(1) It sounds like self-congratulation for disbelieving incorrect forecasts of rain, then proudly stepping into a hailstorm without an umbrella.
(2) It happens within a society where we repeatedly hear victims dismissed, belittled and disbelieved at best, or, at worst,blamed for their own assaults.
(3) 'I've no reason to believe these rumours or disbelieve them.'
(4) I look at him – and the house – disbelievingly.
(5) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(6) The year after the joint UK-Libyan operations were mounted, Straw told MPs they must disbelieve allegations of UK involvement in rendition "unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States".
(7) Lest you think that the headline does not fairly represent the content of the column, Blackhurst, in explaining why he would never have allowed his newspaper to publish any of the documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, actually wrote: If the security services insist something is contrary to the public interest, and might harm their operations, who am I (despite my grounding from Watergate onwards) to disbelieve them?"
(8) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(9) Discarding the difference with the disbelieving sects, and considering co-existence with them as the true societal bond that the ummah must operate in accordance with in order to preserve its goals, while in reality protection is implemented for the rights of all the communities of disbelief while oppressing the Sunnis and their principles.
(10) Last night, Letterman turned his legendary ironic wit on himself , revealing to an unprepared and frankly disbelieving TV audience that he had been the victim of a $2m (£1.25m) blackmail plot.
(11) Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military.
(12) With the stadium still in disbelieving raptures from the heroics of Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford, Farah took to the track to huge cheers knowing that at least a dozen of the 29-strong field were capable of mounting a serious challenge.
(13) Judge Thokozile Masipa found no reason to disbelieve Pistorius’s story and convicted him of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter.
(14) Clinton’s share of the ballot among union households in Ohio dropped sharply on previous elections as Trump’s focus on jobs and trade resonated with voters who, polls showed, believe international trade takes away US jobs and disbelieved Clinton’s claims of an economic recovery.
(15) The report claims that these studies "could not have been clearer" in their description of the situation in Rotherham, adding that the first of these was "effectively suppressed" because some senior officers disbelieved some of its data.
(16) But my performance made it impossible for attendees to disbelieve, forcing them to recognise that sexual interactions that are often dismissed as normal are too often instances of sexual violence.
(17) I guess this is where the Holocaust really became the Holocaust .” Familiar as we now may be with concentration-camp footage, it might seem hard to realise that there was a good 15-year period after the war where the Holocaust was essentially disbelieved.
(18) Well, I'll show you what tough is ..." Whereupon he seized a steak knife and violently stabbed himself in the leg, watched by the disbelieving Ali, who had no idea Reg had a false leg and was reduced to gobsmacked silence.
(19) I'm inclined to disbelieve everything he says, but at the bar, another local man says it's true.
(20) During a Newsnight interview in December 1999, Bowie found himself evangelising the impact of the internet to a mostly disbelieving Jeremy Paxman.
Sceptical
Definition:
() Alt. of Scepticism
Example Sentences:
(1) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(2) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(3) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
(4) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(5) But she has repeatedly said she doesn't want the job and her hardline attitude to human rights abuses in her current job as secretary of state is said to have made the Chinese sceptical about her candidacy.
(6) My scepticism has not vanished overnight and I cannot help but still be haunted by certain fears.
(7) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(8) And despite the initial scepticism, now completely gone says Henry, DCA's transparency and accountability systems and mechanisms are now "some of the most convincing tools to fundraising, credibility and brand recognition" and is used by face-to-face fundraisers, volunteers and PR to promote the organisation.
(9) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
(10) Anette Oien, too, was "deeply sceptical" to start with.
(11) Few of us will have reliable memories from before three or four years of age, and recollections from before that time need to be treated with scepticism.
(12) His initial exposure to leftist ideas was via the underground hippy press which provided him "with a certain amount of scepticism".
(13) He thinks Obama himself is sceptical of the current surge; in fact he thinks many of the politicians who back it are only really doing so because they want a fast exit from Afghanistan.
(14) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
(15) Sceptics have queried whether such vast sums are realistic for an unstable nation that is battling terror groups and has struggled to attract significant foreign investment.
(16) But Clive Cowdery, who founded the company as Resolution Group in 2009, is understood to have been sceptical about such a go-it-alone strategy and preferred a sale on the right terms.
(17) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(18) The middle term attracts the most scepticism, based on the presumption that just because your field isn't professionally accredited, you do not know anything and you can't process information.
(19) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(20) Glitzy online lectures, or fancy learning technologies, are difficult to reconcile with this fundamental scepticism.