incredulous
She broke off when she saw the look of utter incredulity on Matt's face.
Louisa uttered some words of incredulity and surprise.
There was widespread incredulity that a junior employee could have racked up such huge losses without the knowledge of his superiors.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not believing
(that's) a likely story!idiom
anti-science
anti-scientific
are my eyes deceiving me?idiom
as if!idiom
authority
foot
iconoclasm
iconoclastic
in denial
in your dreams!idiom
incredulous
joke
salt
self-deception
since whenidiom
take something with a pinch of saltidiom
tell me another one!idiom
worship
yeah

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Feelings of surprise and amazement

Examples of incredulity

incredulity
This combination of admiration and incredulity prompted much talk and laughter, again serving to disrupt passivity and orderly routine.
In its incredulity towards subjective autonomy, postmodernism may seem incompatible with authenticity.
This attitude was compounded by the incredulity of the nationalist press that street preaching insulting to the religious sensibilities of the majority was legal.
They all expressed incredulity and disdain towards the meta-narrative of biomedicine.
However, incredulity is not the product of how non-realistic the stage events are, but of the theatrical discourse employed.
Once "natural laws" had hardened into "laws of nature," violations could no longer be a matter for reprimand but only for incredulity.
Consider our incredulity at the claim, for instance, that two men have a single height trope.
Of the remaining 92%, whose parents did not know, a question as to how their parents would react if told about it, gave rise to expressions of shock and incredulity.
I was sorry to see that it was greeted with a certain amount of incredulity and even hostility.
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