Get to know Incredulously better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like credulously.
Incredulously meaning
In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve; skeptically.
Synonyms of Incredulously
Using Incredulously
- The main meaning on this page is: In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve; skeptically.
- Useful related words include: unbelievingly, disbelievingly, believingly, credulously.
- In the example corpus, incredulously often appears in combinations such as: incredulously how.
Context around Incredulously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incredulously
- In this selection, "incredulously" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, laughed, donalds, asked, asked, asks and ask stand out and add context to how "incredulously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also wondered incredulously how something and at her incredulously. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incredulously" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incredulously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The doctor looked at her incredulously. (6 words)
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds incredulously asked DailyMail. (7 words)
He incredulously asks Gangleri if he has not heard the story before. (12 words)
In an alternate future episode, " Endgame ", The Doctor adopts the name Joe (causing the alternate Tom Paris to incredulously ask "It took you 33 years to come up with 'Joe'?") and marries a human female named Lana. (37 words)
When in reply Agenor calls her cruel, Tamiri asks incredulously how he can call her cruel when he has cruelly acquiesced in allowing Alexander to betroth her to Aminta? (29 words)
Her family also wondered incredulously how something like that could have happened to someone who was guilty of only being within the confines of her house. (26 words)
When in reply Agenor calls her cruel, Tamiri asks incredulously how he can call her cruel when he has cruelly acquiesced in allowing Alexander to betroth her to Aminta? (29 words)
Example sentences (10)
Asked whether he’d seen any drone flying around the jail shortly before the escape, he laughed, incredulously.
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds incredulously asked DailyMail.
Obama asked incredulously when he recalled that Trump had said there wasn’t much he would change about his response to the pandemic.
The doctor looked at her incredulously.
Her family also wondered incredulously how something like that could have happened to someone who was guilty of only being within the confines of her house.
Diana tells the young military pilot about her immaculate conception and divine origins and he reacts as incredulously as one would expect.
So she's thinking, somewhat incredulously, that they may take the wellness summits on the road.
When in reply Agenor calls her cruel, Tamiri asks incredulously how he can call her cruel when he has cruelly acquiesced in allowing Alexander to betroth her to Aminta?
He incredulously asks Gangleri if he has not heard the story before.
In an alternate future episode, " Endgame ", The Doctor adopts the name Joe (causing the alternate Tom Paris to incredulously ask "It took you 33 years to come up with 'Joe'?") and marries a human female named Lana.
Common combinations with incredulously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: