Sceptical

Examples

• Britain was producing a great industrial population, Protestant or sceptical; she had agricultural labourers indeed, but no peasants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now the whole of Christendom became as a whole sceptical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A small smile came over Winifred's face, subtle and sceptical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Preece, who, having been seriously sceptical as to Mr. Edison's results, became one of his most ardent advocates, and did much to facilitate the introduction of the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was a far more civilized and profoundly sceptical world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Sceptical writers have had the temerity to deny that Jesus can be called a Christian at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was naturally sceptical of the imaginative will, and with a great respect for and comprehension of established fact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Visitors, of course, were numerous, including many curious, sceptical railroad managers, few if any of whom except Villard could see the slightest use for the new motive power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And you are not going to be French, and sceptical, and sneering? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fear not, he replied, for your audience will not be hard upon you; they are not sceptical or hostile. Plato. The Republic.

Typist: Terrence