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Example sentences for "skeptical"

Lexicographically close words:
skelps; skelter; skep; skeps; skeptic; skepticism; skeptics; skerries; skerry; sketch
  1. A critic who could have asked for authorities in the midst of such a scene must have been of a cold and skeptical nature, and few such critics were there.

  2. Protestantism repudiated the toleration professed by skeptical philosophers and indulgent free-thinkers in the South, while it repelled those refined persons by theological fervor and moral indignation which they could not comprehend.

  3. He was one of the most accomplished wits who frequented the salon of Madame de Croissy, and he developed his skeptical system through the medium of the French language, in a series of letters to M.

  4. Still it may be said with truth that skeptical tendencies have never gained a permanent position in the United States, though our immunity from their sway has not been the result of indifference toward the great movements of Europe.

  5. Old men are now living who have not forgotten those days when all distinctions vanished, when the only name heard was "burgher," and when the skeptical and daring favorites of the people obtained seats in the national assembly.

  6. We find amatory songs, selfish proverbs, skeptical discourses, and the most awful imprecations human fancy ever clothed in speech.

  7. Freely imbibing the skeptical opinions of the court of Louis XIV.

  8. After Frederic the Great ascended the throne, and began to countenance the increasing skeptical tendencies of the day, he recalled him, in 1740, to his former position.

  9. Whenever a land is morally prostrate and helpless, the ministry skeptical or indifferent, and the sects arrayed against each other, if humane efforts can be discovered, there is hope of better times.

  10. Is the spirit of French Protestantism against them, and are the majority of the clergy yielding to the insinuating arguments of the skeptical school?

  11. They were under the chief editorship of Ruge; and, being popular and youthful in style, they wielded an unbounded influence on the dissatisfied and skeptical classes.

  12. A defense of Scripture against the objections of the Skeptical Scientific School.

  13. We must not imagine that, because the term Rationalism has been frequently employed within the last few years, it is of very recent origin either as a word or skeptical type.

  14. The present sojourner in Geneva finds but few remnants of that skeptical preaching and general religious indifference so lamentably prevalent before the rise of the Evangelical Dissenting Church.

  15. The whole of Europe, that Europe which was still skeptical and apathetic like a dead forest, was fuel for the conflagration.

  16. You may remember I was always skeptical on the subject of Bertram's settling down to a domestic hearthstone.

  17. He declares that Lincoln was an Infidel because his associations were "with rough and skeptical men;" but that after removing to Washington and "associating with a different class of men" he became a Christian.

  18. Upon such altars as these the skeptical reader will remember that Mars had once hung his "battered shield," his lance, and "uncontrolled crest.

  19. The world did not take these skeptical ventures very seriously, and they were for the most part regarded as the attempts of a clever young man to show how much more clever he was than the ordinary run of believing mortals.

  20. As the critical or skeptical traits of youth develop in later adolescence the intellectual formulas and supports of religion will be overhauled.

  21. Fortunately in the very midst of a reticent and often skeptical period there comes, through the awakened vocational interest, an inlet into the soul of youth.

  22. Davis said with an unconvincingly ironic and skeptical air, "Indeed, why not?

  23. It was an obviously skeptical article on a report made by the crewmen of a sailing ship that stopped by Manila.

  24. The reader will perceive, then, that I am convinced of the equal impolicy and impropriety of resting the claims of my clients (ghosts in general) upon facts which will not stand the test of an impartial, and even a skeptical scrutiny.

  25. He was as skeptical on the merits of all kinds of poetry but one, as Richardson was on those of the novels of Fielding.

  26. If past events are viewed as a lapse from an ideal, the study of history makes one conservative and skeptical about progress.

  27. The writer admits that until a few years ago he was skeptical as to the value of phonetic transcription in the teaching of German.

  28. Language limitations, lack of a knowledge of subject matter, inability to illustrate effectively, and the skeptical attitude of fellow students all militate against successful teaching by a member of the class.

  29. It is for this reason that I am somewhat skeptical of the value of the syllabus prepared by the teacher for the use of classes in philosophy,--it does for the student what he should do for himself.

  30. Nobody is practical on Strawberry Acres, according to a certain brilliant but skeptical attorney from town.

  31. But he had ceased to oppose the project, except by comments skeptical to a degree.

  32. Now Prue always smiles at one of my theories; she is entirely skeptical of it; but it is, nevertheless, my opinion that men love most passionately, and women most permanently.

  33. Lardner, who at an earlier period was skeptical as to the powers of the locomotive, now promulgated the idea that a railway constructed with rising and falling gradients would be practically as easy to work as a line perfectly level.

  34. It is only tentative, and subject necessarily to frequent errors, for the elimination of which the severely skeptical spirit of the laws to which it is now held furnishes the best appliance.

  35. This has been of late years set up in the centre of the town, surrounded with an iron railing, and made visible to all comers, skeptical or otherwise.

  36. It may seem strange that this cold skeptical philosophy appealed to such an imaginative poet as Shelley; but destruction, as Hogg remarks, so that it be on a grand scale, may sometimes prove hardly less inspiring than creation.

  37. He thinks that Shelley took up skeptical philosophy because of the advantage it gave him in argument.

  38. Blimps Used to Search for U-Boats Navy opinion around the world was skeptical at the beginning of the War as to whether submarines would ever be practical.

  39. Most practical men would (knowing the opposition of almost all tradesmen to making any change in their methods and habits), however, be skeptical as to the possibility of actually achieving any large results from a study of this sort.

  40. Although the reader may be convinced that there is a certain science back of the handling of pig iron, still it is more than likely that he is still skeptical as to the existence of a science for doing other kinds of laboring.

  41. VÅ“lcker evidently thought I was skeptical on this point.

  42. Our experiences up to Denver, however, inclined us to be somewhat skeptical on the Indian question, and our subsequent observations did not greatly change this.

  43. He admitted some of his people believed in spirits; but he himself had never seen any, and was skeptical on the whole subject.

  44. Before arriving there, we were very skeptical on this subject; but before leaving, and afterwards, heard so many ugly stories, that we were compelled to believe somewhat in them.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skeptical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agnostic; ambiguous; capricious; cautious; chancy; changeable; disbelieving; distrustful; doubtful; doubting; dubious; equivocal; erratic; fickle; guarded; hesitant; hesitating; incalculable; incredulous; indecisive; indemonstrable; irresolute; leery; mistrustful; questioning; quizzical; scrupulous; shy; skeptical; sophisticated; suspecting; suspicious; unaccountable; unbelieving; uncertain; unconvinced; unforeseeable; unpredictable; unprovable; unsure; variable; wary; wavering; whimsical