incredulous

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So to answer the questions, he did indeed know he was caught because I leaned around my monitor, incredulous, and asked, "are you smelling my COAT?!"

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  1. adjective Skeptical; disbelieving: incredulous of stories about flying saucers.
  2. adjective Expressive of disbelief: an incredulous stare.

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  • Though some were incredulous -- the phone company! —  Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web
  • He looked incredulous, and it certainly appeared as though what I had just told him was really news to him. —  Giddy Tigers
  • So to answer the questions, he did indeed know he was caught because I leaned around my monitor, incredulous, and asked, "are you smelling my COAT?!" —  Chaos Theory
  • I obviously sound incredulous, an so her mother offers an explanation: 'Yifan has a good inner strength and is not bothered ba a loss now and then. —  ChessBase News
  • When I hear arguments that "we need to solve the problems of humans first" or that "you can't equate the life of an animal with a human life" I am incredulous -- such thinking is beyond ignorance and to me represents a deep-seated fear and hatred of all things natural (which to me, since we are part of 'all things natural' is a form of self-loathing). —  How to Save the World
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  1. From Latin incrēdulus : in-, not; see in-1 + crēdulus, believing; see credulous.

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  1. = French incrédule = Spanish Portuguese Italian incredulo, from Latin incredulus, unbelieving, unbelievable, from in- privative + credulus, believing: see credulous.
 

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/ɪnˈkrɛdʒjuləs/
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