(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.
Skeptic
Definition:
(n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
(n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist.
(n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion.
(a.) Alt. of Skeptical
Example Sentences:
(1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(2) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(3) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
(4) Of these therapists, 78% reported that they had encountered intense skepticism from fellow professionals.
(5) Skeptics have disregarded that even lyophilized preparations of demonstrated activity will lose effect when stored above -80 degrees C. This explains some inconsistencies of results and difficulties in repetition.
(6) These stories play on half-truths, like the presence of far-right nationalists at Maidan, and reasonable doubt, like skepticism of western meddling.
(7) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
(8) But first it has to get to the floor of the House of Representatives – where the leadership, which allowed a floor vote on Amash's amendment this summer, appears to take a more skeptical view.
(9) But the euro-skeptic outcome of the European elections posed risks to the single market and the economic recovery was "neither robust nor sufficiently strong".
(10) Outside of the potential abuses, there are other reasons to be skeptical of the cheerleading around the housing recovery.
(11) Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value.
(12) PB Everything goes right for the Chargers You can forgive San Diego Chargers fans for being skeptical about their team's chances, and not just because their team only had a 1.6% chance of making the playoffs around Week 13 .
(13) Bradley argues that, while young people are generally good at spotting advertising, university prospectuses are different and can slip under the radar of skepticism.
(14) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(15) The evaluation and management of retinal ischemia from atherosclerotic carotid disease is in a state of flux reflected by the change from emphasizing surgical management in the '70s toward skepticism about the benefit of surgery in the '80s.
(16) Changes in nomenclature, while sorely needed, should be undertaken with appropriate skepticism and conservatism and should build upon the foundation provided by DSM-III.
(17) Thomas Jefferson, though generally skeptical of the medical treatments of his day, turned to laudanum in his later years to help ease his chronic diarrhea – an affliction that probably helped kill him .
(18) Many clinicians and radiotherapists are skeptical about the outcome of using radiosensitizers in patients.
(19) Surgeons commonly have reacted with skepticism to the introduction of catheter-based interventional approaches to treating coronary artery disease, prompted apparently, by a desire to protect what had been exclusively their turf.
(20) And theirs is not the only near-death story that has raised skeptical eyebrows – even among evangelicals.