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What does incredulous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe. [from 16th c.]
  2. Expressing or indicative of incredulity. [from 17th c.]
  3. (largely obsolete, now only nonstandard) Difficult to believe; incredible. [from 17th c.]
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The crew looked around wildly, disbelieving their ears, shooting incredulous looks towards their shipmate.
Compare and contrast the treatment meted out to Minister Lewis, who was constantly interrupted with incredulous comments and expostulations.
The other was incredulous, and kept underlining his solution on the blackboard with heavy chalk lines.
He spontaneously generates melodic lines and develops them at length, so that one is left incredulous that this is all improvised.
An incredulous snort came from Chris, and I gave him dirty look that silenced him up.
Stephan looked at me with an incredulous stare, which narrowed into a glare.

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