Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.

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  • adverb In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve: skeptically.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an incredulous manner

Etymologies

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incredulous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • She spoke his name incredulously, clutching her child closer to her.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • She spoke his name incredulously, clutching her child closer to her.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • He waited, while Abel and Nicolo looked incredulously from the map to him, and then at each other.

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

  • "Do you mean to say," incredulously, "that since you know who did it, he'll ever have another opportunity?"

    The Fighting Shepherdess Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Lynn says she turned 'incredulously' towards her mother, who had by this time started teaching drama in a local school, but she agreed with her husband.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • A clue to the district's defense might be contained in one line of the lawsuit that notes that "incredulously," the student reporters "now appear to be claiming that the students actually agreed to have their names included and to have the intimate details of their private sexual histories announced to the entire student body via the JagWire article."

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News 2008

  • Watch him, "incredulously," tryin 'to quirt his horse across the crick! "

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • He couldn't talk of anything else when I-- you don't mean to say "-- incredulously --" that he made a success of that! "

    The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • You still believe, "incredulously," in a government of the sort he contemplated? "

    The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • You still believe, "incredulously," in a government of the sort he contemplated? "

    The Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

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  • "Hadn't you ever seen snow fall before?, he asked incredulously."- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, pg.39

    October 27, 2010