skeptically
Pronunciations
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/ˈskɛptɪkli/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adverb
In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.
Usage- US usage
- Examples
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By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.
"And you're the only person in the country who can do it." Get off," she said skeptically.
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Apple Fitness+ has been as anticipated as anything in the digital fitness realm could be. Their platform seemed ambitious, expensive, and try as I might to imagine fitnessy innovations, I kept skeptically asking: How much room is there to actually improve a streaming HIIT or spin class in a new way?
Adverb
with scepticism; in a sceptical manner
- Synonyms
- Examples
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he looked at her sceptically
Word forms
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