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skeptic
/ˈskɛptɪk/
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What does skeptic mean?
noun
- Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
- Someone who is skeptical towards religion.
adjective
- Skeptical.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈskɛptɪk/
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We all long for sincerity, but the too sincere are treated much as the skeptic of Bjoriasen's tale, who was killed by his friends.
Lord Rosebery, being a modern skeptic, probably prefers the spiritual tremors.
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Quite naturally this man was a confirmed skeptic.
That only the skeptic can be right everybody knows who has at all noticed how various people differ in regard to analogies, how very different the experiences of a single man are, both in their observation and interpretation.
The skeptic, in effect, that delicate creature, is far too easily frightened; his conscience is schooled so as to start at every Nay, and even at that sharp, decided Yea, and feels something like a bite thereby.