Adjective : His tactics are highly doubtful. From Dictionary.com.
The next day, March 1, doubtfulness turned to near hopelessness. From Wordnik.com. [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference
Martin looked at him half in admiration and half in doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
The way of learning these names contributes also to their doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
At first there was a murmur, half surprise, half-doubtfulness, by the audience. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
I would not credit it a moment, if you yourself were not the cause of my doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
"Forgive me for my doubtfulness," he said, "but are you certain that she wants to see me?". From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
He approached his task with "great doubtfulness," fully conscious of the dilemma involved. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
For wherever before we had a doubtful assertion, we have now an assertion of doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But, leaving aside the doubtfulness of generating 'news' this way, do the surveys really tell us anything?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
It seemed to him that it had to do with the doubtfulness of whether or not the mortgagor will pay the debt. From Wordnik.com. [Literacy; why is it that we want to stay with modern meaning rather than return to the True meaning of a word? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News] Reference
Without doubt; but the question is not here concerning the doubtfulness of the event, but the rule of right. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter Concerning Toleration] Reference
But perhaps it was a feeling of doubtfulness about the coat, which prompted a startling departure in his costume. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
A certain doubtfulness hangs over the circumstances of Burke's life previous to the opening of his public career. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Have you gone to them, and told them the doubtfulness of your case, and asked their help in the judging of your condition?. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Then Scheffer said, not hesitating -- for anything like a doubtfulness of manner on his part would have defeated his design. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I smiled with cherry doubtfulness; but he, divining my thought, made haste to say, "No, they were on the right road, but missed it.". From Wordnik.com. [THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE] Reference
The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness or ambiguity of their signification, which is caused by the sort of ideas they stand for. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
We are at pains to affirm only that which may be conceived of as doubtful, therefore admit a certain doubtfulness by the act of asserting. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
The way also wherein the names of mixed modes are ordinarily learned, does not a little contribute to the doubtfulness of their signification. From Wordnik.com. [God, Aids & Circumcision] Reference
That then which makes doubtfulness and uncertainty in the signification of some more than other words, is the difference of ideas they stand for. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
As there was no time to be lost, I concluded to go over to New York, notwithstanding the doubtfulness of attempting to find them in so large a city. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Doris sighed over the doubtfulness in her uncle's tone. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
Last day of their doubtfulness touching her being with child. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Anything may be weighty that causes scruple or doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Our Fathers] Reference
'Well,' Hazell began, with equal doubtfulness, 'as for that --'. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Babylon Hotel] Reference
But under both elation and concern there was a certain doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Great War Syndicate] Reference
Ellen's heart there was a little secret doubtfulness respecting her undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
The doubtfulness as to their adaptability to the representative form of government. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference
Vittoria concluded her perfect expression of confidence with this atoning doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
The old lady spoke with a certain serious doubtfulness, looking at the girl by her side. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
"I," -- again the mutability and doubtfulness of all things were brought home to Sylvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Opened Shutters] Reference
Had he reflected, perhaps he would not have added this circumstance; even in speaking he suffered a confused doubtfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Academy enlarged on the doubtfulness of all beyond the individual consciousness; Stoicism insisted on individual dutifulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
Their present lack of cash, the doubtfulness of being able to sell and deliver the horses, made ransom a glittering possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Trail] Reference
She would glance at him then, with a special loving doubtfulness, at a loss as to whether or no he had designed to compliment her. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
I saw that doubtfulness, inconstancy, sorrow and the like, could not be in him, seeing I could my self have wish'd to have been exempted from them. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences] Reference
That season of victory for the Union arms, coming, as it did, upon a season of depression and doubtfulness, was doubly grateful to the loyal heart of the Nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6] Reference
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