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What does incredulous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word incredulous? Here's what it means.

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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Compare and contrast the treatment meted out to Minister Lewis, who was constantly interrupted with incredulous comments and expostulations.
Josh ranted, too absorbed in his words to notice the incredulous expression his companion was wearing.
I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl's coyness.
Stephan looked at me with an incredulous stare, which narrowed into a glare.
What he saw on the onionskin that had passed through Dutton's decrepit typewriter left him literally incredulous.
His tone was neither accusing, nor incredulous, but rather plainly curious.

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