discreditverbformal

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
iconoclastic
in denial
in your dreams!idiom
incredulity
incredulous
joke
salt
self-deception
since whenidiom
take something with a pinch of saltidiom
tell me another one!idiom
worship
yeah

Examples of disbelieve

disbelieve
We are to 'make believe' that such moral statements are true, despite our disbelieving them.
Although we were confident that the sage was right, we now disbelieve the sage's report.
The juror may disbelieve some prosecution witness or doubt some expert witness offered by the state 25.
The only sensible stance in such cases is to refuse to believe or disbelieve, and to treat the assertions made merely as speculative suggestions.
Should a psychiatrist refrain from disbelieving (parts of) a story and take the history at face value?
The news, initially widely disbelieved, sent shock waves through the human rights community, as well as through the media and the political establishment.
But he did not follow the trend of disbelieving the child.
In particular, they must be able to decide whether they need to acquire further information to get a warrant for believing or disbelieving.
He certainly had no reason to disbelieve him.
Likewise, the dominant discourses of masculinity are not without challenge, and there are many who ignore, disbelieve, or resist them.
The range of responses is summed up at the start of the next chapter: believing, faith-full, purely sceptical, and disbelieving (195).
One was free to disbelieve the predictive quality of comets.
It is also the case that the criminal justice system does not have to actively disbelieve a child.
It selectively believes and disbelieves the testimony of the woman.
Among the results would certainly be beliefs about probability, and these might in many cases lead the rational inquirer to disbelieve various religious propositions.
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