misbelievingly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
misbelieving + -ly
Adverb[edit]
misbelievingly (comparative more misbelievingly, superlative most misbelievingly)
- Synonym of disbelievingly
- 1882, Mary Elizabeth Bradden, Mount Royal:
- If he had been told of such a woman he would have shrugged his shoulders misbelievingly, or would have declared that she must be an idiot.
- 1950, Rose Thurburn, The Wilderness is Yours, page 145:
- He tried to make it ring misbelievingly, a joke, as if he was still assuming something else.