(n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sign of the depth of unease within the party, reports strongly suggested it was not just doubters among his cabinet colleagues but a lack of support among the 2010 intake of MPs – who make up nearly half the parliamentary party – that persuaded Mitchell to resign.
(2) Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, said the Brics alliance has proved the doubters wrong.
(3) How can Ed Miliband change the narrative and silence the doubters?
(4) If anyone has interpreted my speech as offensive, I offer my apologies.” Following his election Tavecchio pledged to prove his doubters wrong.
(5) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
(6) And yes, I was one of the doubters who presumed he would be the first coach to be sacked.
(7) Although the Portland Trail Blazers' early season success didn't quite earn them respect from their doubters , it helps them a bit to have a win streak that ties them with the perennially successful Spurs.
(8) On Wednesday it seemed that the doubters had been right, when the countdown was removed from the EmmaYouAreNext.com website, to be replaced by the logo “Shut down 4Chan”, and a letter to Barack Obama calling for the messageboard to be closed down.
(9) Angry Birds Epic (Free + IAP) There are plenty of doubters wondering if the Angry Birds bubble is about to burst, but Angry Birds Epic was an intriguing move into a new genre: RPGs.
(10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
(11) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
(12) Caleb Porter convinced what few remaining doubters he had with a masterfully managed series against Seattle, that even turned the now-familiar doomed Sounders charge in the second leg into an afterthought to Portland's emphatic first half.
(13) The FA even experimented with holding the game in August – shortly before the beginning of the following season – in 1972 and 1973, but this failed to win over the doubters, and the last such play-off was played between Burnley and Leicester City on 9 May 1974, with the Clarets winning 1-0.
(14) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
(15) The collection proves those doubters wrong, with Wang using his supple approach to create clothes that are both more avant-garde than most recent designer-meets-high-street ranges and more accessibly priced.
(16) By setting aside the past, this was the day Miliband took full command of his party, a shadow cabinet behind him no longer scratchy with a few doubters.
(17) The question for Hunt and his founding fathers is whether they can convince the doubters and rally full press support.
(18) Many of her doubters have been won round, though, by her supervision of the Tate collection's rehang, removing explanatory texts, bringing in surprises and arranging the works chronologically.
(19) At one point, musing on this crusade, he talks of the thrill of "Billy Graham moments", in which suburban doubters are spontaneously converted to the cause; his zeal for all aspects of the mission overflows.
(20) Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.