Synonym: disbelieving, doubting, questioning, skeptical, unbelieving. Similar words: susceptible, inception, reception, perception, exception, deceptive, deception, perceptible. Meaning: ['skeptɪkl] adj. 1. marked by or given to doubt 2. denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion.
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31. Many are sceptical of the coroner's verdict of suicide.
32. People will always be sceptical about faith healing.
33. Some senior civil servants remain sceptical.
34. How then are we to find a conception of mental states other than that on which the sceptical argument trades?
35. He's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake.
36. Personally, I am sceptical about Jose's view that the press has such power to mislead and to be always believed.
37. Many Sri Lankans are sceptical of the government's instant solution to the murder.
38. Sceptical, I quickly learnt, is not considered an asset in the low-wage service sector.
39. In the West we have suffered a generation of sceptical engineering by stealth.
40. However, others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state.
41. Some, like Faraday, were highly sceptical but prepared to try an experiment or two.
42. As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess.
43. I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection.
44. Populism, however, is rarely the worse for sceptical assessment: particularly when it is equated with justice.
45. Now most of these teams have been disbanded, and many of those involved sound deeply sceptical.
46. The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money, but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve.http://sentencedict.com/sceptical.html
47. The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bonafides.
48. It was widely praised, even in Nature, which might have been sceptical.
49. At a recent meeting with bus company representatives councillors and officers were sceptical about the claims in lost business.
50. Campaigning groups were on the whole sceptical of the extent of the summit's achievements.
51. Even if you are sceptical about meridians, there's no denying that the roller gives an enjoyable massage.
52. Other officials, especially those who observed the operation of the tribunals in the Low Country, were more sceptical.
53. Some architects are enthusiastic about the contribution their profession can make to the sustainable housing agenda274 while others are more sceptical.
54. But many Christians have come to believe because they were more sceptical than most.
55. If necessary put together a group of people who you know will be sceptical and try the presentation out on them first.
56. But the business community's sceptical about whether bartering would ever work on a larger scale.
57. The sceptical economist peter Bauer did a simple calculation, reversing the World Bank's growth-rate.
58. On the other hand Tsongas, another centrist sceptical of big government, espoused an industrial policy which distanced him from Clinton.
59. The more sceptical see Vercruysse's defection simply as a private tiff between the artist and Hoet.
60. Some well-informed practitioners are highly sceptical of the reliability of corporate betas based on historical data.
More similar words: susceptible, inception, reception, perception, exception, deceptive, deception, perceptible, conception, apperception, septic, antiseptic, skepticism, critical, vertical, identical, statically, political, practical, fanatical, politically, sabbatical, practically, theoretical, fanatically, dramatically, statistical, aesthetically, alphabetical, automatically.