in disbelief

Synonyms

incredulous unbelieving incredulously disbelieving

Examples

What's your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. "What's my name?” "Don't you know it? Cassandra Clare

Fang snorted in disbelief. "On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt? James Patterson

Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax? I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief. John Flanagan

What? You don't think he's cute?" "I didn't really notice." "How can you not notice when a guy is cute?" Melody stared at her in disbelief. Nicholas Sparks

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. Henry Rollins

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go. Dennis Franz

Words in the phrase

in disbelief

Close letter words and terms

in dire straits in dire straits or need in direct line in discretion in disfavor in disfavour