"skeptical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

skeptical adjetivo

skeptical + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 33
skeptical view • skeptical look • skeptical eye • skeptical public • skeptical eyebrow • ...
verbo + skeptical
Kolokacji: 6
look skeptical • sound skeptical • grow skeptical • become skeptical • remain skeptical • ...
adverbio + skeptical
Kolokacji: 19
initially skeptical • highly skeptical • most skeptical • deeply skeptical • increasingly skeptical • ...
1. initially skeptical = pierwotnie sceptyczny initially skeptical
2. increasingly skeptical = coraz bardziej sceptyczny increasingly skeptical
3. openly skeptical = otwarcie sceptyczny openly skeptical
4. generally skeptical = powszechnie sceptyczny generally skeptical
5. clearly skeptical = wyraźnie sceptyczny clearly skeptical
7. properly skeptical = odpowiednio sceptyczny properly skeptical
  • Orlando Figes, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is properly skeptical of such excuses.
  • Jack is properly skeptical about her story.
  • Levi is properly skeptical about what seems a touch of wishfulness on the part of another thinking man.
  • Mr. Broomfield is properly skeptical about most of the people he interviews; corroborating evidence for their stories, he shows, is hard to come by.
  • F'lar looked properly skeptical, although Lessa did not miss the gleam of excitement in his eyes.
  • Among the questions raised: Was the paper properly skeptical of officialdom, in this case the Bush administration?
  • But the committee's plan to take the testimony in closed session is hardly a way to reassure a properly skeptical public about its dedication to get to the bottom of things.
  • He said he felt his report was properly skeptical.
  • As a result, Ojime was properly skeptical of those who characterized themselves as righteous, divining in their strict rectitude the bud of evil and twisted psychosis.
  • Hoffman is properly skeptical of the notion that actual trauma can be transmitted across the generations.
8. naturally skeptical = z natury sceptyczny naturally skeptical
(2) highly, extremely
Kolokacji: 2
(3) most, frankly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
(5) somewhat, pretty, slightly
Kolokacji: 3
(6) equally, similarly
Kolokacji: 2
skeptical + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
skeptical about • skeptical of • skeptical in • skeptical to • skeptical at • ...

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