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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91. The belief that technics must replace politics makes technocrats sceptical about and even hostile towards politicians and political institutions.
92. Some sceptical arguments attack the notion of knowledge directly but leave other related notions, crucially that of justified belief, untouched.
93. But health union leaders remain sceptical, and fear services could be hit if the mall fails to take off.
94. I am sceptical about the proposition that minority rights can be protected by redrawing internal frontiers.
95. So I am sceptical when it is said that ordinary people are not interested in fundamental rights.
96. In the next section we shall consider three sceptical arguments which are strong enough to be worth taking seriously.
97. Unlike Colin, who remains slightly sceptical, Mister C espouses the McKenna message with an evangelical fervour.
98. People adhere to astrology with a dogmatic frame of mind rather than having a sceptical, critical approach.
99. Jaq's sensual lips were definitely at odds with his sceptical ice-blue eyes.
100. Both biological and cultural explanations, however, have sceptical implications as far as morality is concerned.
101. Sorauf points out that public opinion has become increasingly sceptical about the use of money in campaign politics.
102. Economists, almost to a man, were sceptical.
103. Some arms control advocates remain sceptical.
104. Others remain sceptical until the fine print is known.
105. This is a sceptical age.
106. I myself became more and more sceptical.
106. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
107. He felt himself too cultured and sceptical.
108. Miss Ophelia is gay, easy, unpunctual, unpractical, sceptical.
109. CLAIMS of clairvoyance, particularly when they come from economists, deserve a sceptical reception.
110. Neoclassical equilibrium theory, which some macro economists had grown sceptical of, has also found new practitioners.
111. I had read in the Ramayana of the tribulations of Sita for having left the ring drawn by Lakshman, so it was not possible for me to be sceptical of its potency.
112. Those others - Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James - are sceptical of their compatriots'confidence in moral progress.
113. A small smile came over Winifred 's face, subtle and sceptical.
114. PEOPLE are sceptical about HUD , the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
115. Lula's left-leaning Workers' Party (PT), which is even more sceptical, has lost influence.
116. This decision will delight protesters and relatives of those killed in the revolution earlier this year, but they will remain sceptical until they see Hosni Mubarak in the dock in a court in Cairo.
117. Interpreted this way, Zhuang Zi's idea is clear: it is not sceptical and sophistic as usually evaluated, but rather rich in dialectics.
118. He takes a rather sceptical view of love and romance.
119. They believed that Robert Boyle formulated the modern definition of element in The Sceptical Chemist thus Boyle established chemistry as science.
120. We were sceptical about your genital wart remover at first, but thought ...
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.