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You can use it when someone does something or says something, and you are surprised by it. For example: He walked up to the podium and cleared his throat incredulously.
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incredulously
adverb
In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve: skeptically.
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"General Marshall," said Miller incredulously "was the nearest thing in modern America to George Washington".
He adds, incredulously: "People in America being scared?"The Republicans, he continues, are hopelessly out of touch.
The leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle, has incredulously contrasted the Republicans' current outrage with their earlier deregulatory fervour.
"What are you", the driver asked, incredulously, "a Jew or something?"So although I've recently finished a book (called "The Earl of Petticoat Lane") that is partly about my family's origins in what was then the Russian Pale of Settlement, I rarely mention those origins to casual acquaintances.Still, there are two bits of good news, sort of, for Russia's Jews.
It is the tax increases to pay for the spending extravaganza that are "savage".Joseph Benning Summit, New JerseySIR – Writing about austerity Britain's global ambitions (October 23rd), Bagehot mentioned that America's secretary of state, Dean Rusk, raged incredulously in 1968 when he heard of the British withdrawal "east of Suez".
In fact, we are usually the last to discover which of our habits get people in adjacent seats tweeting incredulously.
IN THE video clip my colleague posted of Paul Ryan arguing with Tim Geithner, Mr Ryan points to the inexorable rise in US government debt starting in 2023 projected by the administration's proposed budget and warns incredulously, "That's Europe".
"CAN'T repeat the past?" Jay Gatsby cried incredulously.
"You would forgive the 9/11 terrorists?" one asks incredulously.
We have also stared incredulously at the news that teenagers in Arizona grouped together to (almost) spell out a racial slur during their senior class photo, and then posted it on social media.
"Do you know what they did?" a retired army general asked incredulously, before describing Hakimullah Mehsud's trademark brutality.
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