Disbelieving
adjective
Not believing or having doubts about something or someone.
She looked at him with disbelieving eyes after hearing his story.
Often appears as...
- disbelieving stare
- disbelieving look
adjective
Not believing or having doubts about something or someone.
She looked at him with disbelieving eyes after hearing his story.
Often appears as...
- disbelieving stare
- disbelieving look
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Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Disbelief
Expressing a polite or restrained doubt rather than open disagreement.
Her disbelieving nod suggested she wasn't fully convinced by their excuse.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Context
Often used to emphasize an emotional reaction to surprising or shocking information.
The crowd's disbelieving gasps filled the room as the truth was revealed.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
Can be associated with non-verbal signals like a raised eyebrow or a shake of the head.
His disbelieving look was accompanied by a skeptical arch of his brow.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Disbelief
Expressing a polite or restrained doubt rather than open disagreement.
Her disbelieving nod suggested she wasn't fully convinced by their excuse.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Context
Often used to emphasize an emotional reaction to surprising or shocking information.
The crowd's disbelieving gasps filled the room as the truth was revealed.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
Can be associated with non-verbal signals like a raised eyebrow or a shake of the head.
His disbelieving look was accompanied by a skeptical arch of his brow.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Disbelief
Expressing a polite or restrained doubt rather than open disagreement.
Her disbelieving nod suggested she wasn't fully convinced by their excuse.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Context
Often used to emphasize an emotional reaction to surprising or shocking information.
The crowd's disbelieving gasps filled the room as the truth was revealed.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual Cues
Can be associated with non-verbal signals like a raised eyebrow or a shake of the head.
His disbelieving look was accompanied by a skeptical arch of his brow.
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we might start disbelieving the truth. We've already seen people invoke the phenomenon of deepfakes to cast doubt on real evidence of their wrongdoing. We've heard politicians say of audio of their disturbing comments,
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How deepfakes undermine...
we might start disbelieving the truth. We've already seen people invoke the phenomenon of deepfakes to cast doubt on real evidence of their wrongdoing. We've heard politicians say of audio of their disturbing comments,
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Quote examples
Al Roker
American Entertainer
I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.
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Thomas Paine
English Activist
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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Bari Weiss
American Editor
Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.
Quote examples
Al Roker
American Entertainer
I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.
Quote examples
Thomas Paine
English Activist
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Quote examples
Bari Weiss
American Editor
Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.
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