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skeptically en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈskɛptɪkli/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin scepticus Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English skeptical Middle English -ly English -ly English skeptically From skeptical + -ly.

Meanings

1. (US) In 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (4)

ru скепти́чески (in a skeptical manner) · ca escèpticament (in a skeptical manner) · es escépticamente (in a skeptical manner) · fi skeptisesti (in a skeptical manner)