skeptically

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1. USIn a skeptical manner, with skepticism.

   "And you're the only person in the country who can do it." Get off," she said skeptically.

   2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 140

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   By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances.

   1994, William Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War

   Apple Fitness+ has been as anticipated as anything in the digital fitness realm could be. Their platform seemed ambitious, expensive, and try as I might to imagine fitnessy innovations, I kept skeptically asking: How much room is there to actually improve a streaming HIIT or spin class in a new way?

   2020 December 14, Maggie Lange, “Do You Miss the Feeling of Team Sports?”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2020