unbelievingly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbelievingly
Adverb
  • Jones asked his players incredulously.
    Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Kizzi adds to his act by pretending to be a devoted fan while V looks on incredulously.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Espinoza responded, holding up his hands questioningly.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Bundhorol motioned to the direction of camp questioningly, then in the opposite direction, out into the empty grass.
    Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • From lambs with quizzically cocked eyebrows, to lambs whose wooly coats are made of flower petals, to lambs that simply defy description.
    Deena Prichep, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The many attending assistants around her eventually disperse — a little hesitantly because Sam is in the middle of preparing a new show — and the two withdraw to Sam’s cavernous studio.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Only the bravest walked hesitantly toward the well.
    Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • But in this case, the story is very doubtfully true.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Adverb
  • Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias — who has amassed a suspiciously formidable war chest for someone just running to hold his statewide post — is widely expected to declare.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Simone Kanter, the Goldman aide, deleted his fake ‘Boogie on, Brad’ clip of a suspiciously limber-looking Lander that was intended to spotlight the rival’s use of spliced footage from their debates in the NY-10 race to create social media attack ads.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
Adverb
  • The threat to actually suspend State Farm’s license and its authority to write policies has been viewed skeptically by some, given its roughly 20% market share of the state’s home insurance market.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • If the federal government wants a role in election security again at some point, said Lux, the Florida voting official, they'll be invited back — skeptically.
    Miles Parks, NPR, 16 June 2026
Adverb
  • While peers have pushed the genre toward radio-ready house-pop or dubiously eccentric experiments, Pond remain tethered to the sound that produced their last true breakout.
    Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
  • Rather, the idea that Nike—or any brand—might explicitly develop an advertisement for the purpose of online engagement, in an era where any engagement might be dubiously engineered, is what started to melt my brain.
    Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 15 June 2026
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“Unbelievingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbelievingly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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