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uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
the dubiousness of his claim
there is no question about the validity of the enterprise - the state of being unsure of something
How To Use doubtfulness In A Sentence
- I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents. Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
- He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness: but he cometh to you with words sent in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. English literary criticism
- The doubtfulness of it comes out, by the way, when it is noticed that this idea can make two items that are in a fundamental way absolutely identical into two different thoughts.
- Then I shook my head violently, trying to clear it of the doubtfulness that clouded it.
- All doubtfulness vanish after the testimony of the key witness.
- All doubtfulness vanish after the testimony of the key witness.
- It is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention," or "Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation," or "unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning. SeeLight:
- But, leaving aside the doubtfulness of generating 'news' this way, do the surveys really tell us anything? Archive 2009-07-01
- It seemed to him that it had to do with the doubtfulness of whether or not the mortgagor will pay the debt. Literacy; why is it that we want to stay with modern meaning rather than return to the True meaning of a word? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News
- On several occasions in your house I observed that whenever there was a discussion of any kind, and Diego gave his opinion, you always took it with a certain irony and doubtfulness of its truthfulness. Jan Herman: Frida K Lives On ...
