Verb (used with object) : to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings. From Dictionary.com.
Last summer, when the cruise ship pulled into Beirut, passengers whipped out their cell phones to call disbelieving friends back home. From Wordnik.com. [BACK FROM THE BRINK] Reference
When it comes to the American Dream, they are "disbelieving" ( "Gone"). From Wordnik.com. [Av Sinensky: State of Love and Trust: Pearl Jam's Backspacer, Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize] Reference
disbelieving a fact that is based on reason, such as disbelieving behavioral cause and effect. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness] Reference
"disbelieving" comments that I've seen and heard for years. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
I ain't believing you and I ain't disbelieving you. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
She stares and she stares, disbelieving her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Fishy-Winkle] Reference
She looks a little shocked, disbelieving but pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Restaurant review: Koffmann's] Reference
For a moment the man stood disbelieving, incongruous. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
His voice took on the disbelieving tone kinless used. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
MAY: Well, I don't know it's a matter of disbelieving. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2004] Reference
And almost people are disbelieving that this could happen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004] Reference
The mandatory sample of disbelieving colleagues was quoted. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
"And its voice," Longtree exclaimed, almost disbelieving it. From Wordnik.com. [I Like Martian Music] Reference
The idea of disbelieving his daughter never entered his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Blessings come to those believing, evil to those disbelieving. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
Were they as disgusted and disbelieving of her as her family was?. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Lisa asked with the disbelieving faith of a religious rationalist. From Wordnik.com. [Twin Moons] Reference
Guy stilled and felt a slow disbelieving smile slide across his lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Specialist]
KING: Were you then disbelieving or agnostic or just didn't think about it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: John Tesh Discusses His Faith and Music - April 11, 2000] Reference
Her deep, gentle face looked out at him with disbelieving gratitude and love. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
And thus the various laughing and disbelieving comments came, one after another. From Wordnik.com. [Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery] Reference
Since it's so disbelieving to you -- you must be thinking about it all the time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2005] Reference
"Then in disbelieving me you put me on a par with a common liar," she says hotly. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
We soon found out that was not true and that's when we started disbelieving them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008] Reference
Afloat in a disbelieving daze, he watched Cravat's Gl sun rise, then swam ashore. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Not many to judge from disbelieving Pakistani faces at Trent Bridge at the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Trial by technology sows seeds of doubt and distrust] Reference
They really were disbelieving that anything like that could have happened in Britain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007] Reference
He won't remedy the matter by creeping back to his cradle and disbelieving in mountains!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Burnett ends up confronting a disbelieving former fiancee (Swoosie Kurtz) in the ladies room. From Wordnik.com. [A Comedy Comeback] Reference
Menlik raised his head, surveying the land about them with disbelieving, contemptuous appraisal. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Raj laughs, a disbelieving, mocking laugh that ricochets off the oil-streaked walls and deep fryer. From Wordnik.com. [Of Soulful Cheese and Melted Needs] Reference
I carefully go back into my room in a disbelieving trance, my brother staggering behind me trying to follow. From Wordnik.com. [My Life In Pools] Reference
Behind everything he says on the subject, you can hear his disbelieving whisper, "You mean, they just make it up?". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe, Ace Reporter] Reference
My trembling hand holds before my disbelieving eyes documentary evidence of our national knack for wretched excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue Sweepstakes] Reference
The place we had been sitting and having coffee through the night was leveled before our groggy, disbelieving eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Dana: Eyewitness Account of the destruction of al-Araqib] Reference
Polls generally show voters disbelieving White House explanations for Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate and all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Other Side] Reference
George Brown, thirsting for a good adventure, and disbelieving in the ghost-story, declares that he will go in Dickson's place. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Doctors had to repeatedly tell the disbelieving mother the disturbing news: damage from regular exposure to lead is usually irreversible. From Wordnik.com. [Lead And Your Kids] Reference
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