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US
/dɪsbəˈɫivɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dˌɪsbɪlˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsbɪlˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion
a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles
How To Use disbelieving In A Sentence
- Last summer, when the cruise ship pulled into Beirut, passengers whipped out their cell phones to call disbelieving friends back home. Back From the Brink
- Without any means to establish the truth, not being duped can only mean disbelieving everything.
- Lucien faced his longtime friend and companion, his expression disbelieving. Naughty or Nice
- Hogarth, in an unusually loquacious mood, had explained to a disbelieving Posy that the Pinks were talented musicians. TICKLED PINK
- I played back the message for my disbelieving friends.
- I have the manic, disbelieving smile of a winning game-show contestant.
- Walter listened disbelievingly as O, affecting his familiar attitude of solicitous older brother, encouraged him to see the bright side in the bewildering estrangement proposed. O: A Presidential Novel
- News of the shared experience of tear gas and of the police firing at them was spread in disbelieving, hastily transmitted messages from person to person to, and those who had not been present in the first moments of violence soon informed. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
- By disbelieving in the soul, it comes to disbelieving in the mind.
- One always has a choice between believing or disbelieving the assumptions, and, along with them, the conclusion of the argument.