incredulously

[ in-krej-uh-luhs-lee ]

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adverb

in a way that indicates or shows disbelief:
He looked incredulously at the lime jello embedded with tuna and mini marshmallows and asked, "Do people actually eat that?"
to a degree that is very difficult to believe; incredibly:
And then the defendant made a statement that was so incredulously stupid I had to laugh.

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Are incredulously and incredibly synonyms? See incredibly ( def ).

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First recorded in 1800–10; incredulous ( def ) + -ly ( def )

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A panel of tobacco executives testifying one by one before Congress, incredulously, that nicotine is not addictive.

Kendall understands what’s driving this response, asking them incredulously if they’re going to let themselves be rattled by a box of doughnuts.

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She stared at the doctor incredulously, then marched to a nearby storage hutch.

You made somebody go through 18 interviews,” Colbert demanded incredulously, “and then you rejected him?

“She was a woman who flew maybe five times a year,” he mumbled incredulously to the press.

I stated incredulously: You wanted a gun fight in your PLAYGROUND?

She adds, incredulously, “She was the maid, but David would have to drive her home in the middle of the night?!”

“There were protests in Europe, New York, and even Saudi Arabia,” she says incredulously.

When they were gone, Cynthia and Joyce turned and looked long and incredulously into each other's eyes.

The men stood around bug-eyed and stared incredulously—all but High-Pockets.

Jess bent over incredulously and saw a rude nest in the moss in which there were five eggs.

I gazed at him incredulously, but he was working himself into a passion, and I did not choose to say what I thought.

He looked at me incredulously when I had finished my excited narrative, reached for my wrist, and shook his head.

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