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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disbelieve . - adjective Not
believed ;discounted ;discredited ;ignored .
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Examples
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To have his word disbelieved was the one thing fatal to Gammon's temper.
The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880
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Adults while knowing better pretended clarity they lacked and asserted platitudes they disbelieved, hoping to spare their children the pain of unrealizable dreams.
James Block: From Occupy to Progressive Renewal: Demanding the Just Society James Block 2011
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Like the treatment meted out to anyone who disagreed with or disbelieved the lies that took our military into Iraq?
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If this declaration is disbelieved, as my former declarations have evidently been, what more can I do or say?
Letter 62 2009
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On top of that is the fact that Dobson had to admit telling lies to police in interview and that Norris's evidence in his own defence was disbelieved by the jury.
Stephen Lawrence killers' appeal puts use of covert video in the frame 2012
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The image of a popular, powerful, determined enemy was a Western-made illusion that vanished as soon as someone disbelieved it.
Africa 2009
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On the government side, the widely disbelieved big society and a relish in cost-cutting that would once have pleased an Aberdeen grocer; from the opposition, a blank sheet of paper.
A new sense of possibility shines on Scotland – but what will really come of it? | Ian Jack 2011
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The district court apparently disbelieved this testimony, based on internal emails speaking of the show as “promot [ing]” the videogame, but it still wrongly made a credibility judgment.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Rape victims want and need to have their truth recognised and to see their attackers branded guilty; far better to achieve that at the expense of longer jail terms than watch so many rapists wriggling free with victims feeling disbelieved and twice damaged.
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The district court apparently disbelieved this testimony, based on internal emails speaking of the show as “promot [ing]” the videogame, but it still wrongly made a credibility judgment.
Long-delayed Facenda post Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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