He looked at her sceptically. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Is that so?" squeaked the mousebeaver sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Spoor of the Antis]
'Muck all over your face,' said Pelagia sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
'Hope you're right, Ty,' Luke-John said sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
So I sceptically followed the recipe as it was written. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Trok grunted sceptically, but secretly he was impressed. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
"Maybe," Rengall replied sceptically as he joined Gibson. From Wordnik.com. [False Front]
'What will you build it of?' questioned Betty sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
"In exchange for what?" the Great Man demanded sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
In Kinshasa, newspapers reacted sceptically Saturday to the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
His godfather, smiling sceptically, would often say to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
"I want to make sure in any case," he answered sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Menace of the Mutant Master]
‘So you say,’ replied Mrs Villiers, sceptically smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Midas] Reference
"He won't volunteer the information," Liszog said sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Friend to Mankind]
This anecdote was treated sceptically at the time by some critics. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Forestier asked sceptically: “To whom do you owe that amount?”. From Wordnik.com. [Bel Ami] Reference
And you are the expert on such publications, 'he said sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
'So you've stopped having funny dreams?' said Hermione sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
Perlman reacted sceptically to new Government plans for poverty upliftment. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I saw Aulus surveying her sceptically; it was the first time he had met her. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
"Do you really believe that this is what happened?" asked Khrest sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts of Gol]
He expected his father to enter into his protest, even if sceptically at first. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Whereupon, in silent hours, we sceptically ask, Is this possible? is it natural?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
The sentences he quotes James Wood quoting sceptically are the sentences that I delight in. From Wordnik.com. [An Assistant Professor Of Cultural Studies With An MFA] Reference
"It could be an animal," Commander Torsin admitted sceptically, letting the U-35 sink deeper. From Wordnik.com. [False Front]
The public becomes languidly interested in a new possibility and even discusses it, sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
But they are also likely to be regarded sceptically by their colleagues as "not paying their dues". From Wordnik.com. [Going on strike: what unions must do before calling a walkout] Reference
He was too intensely in earnest himself to note that his companion was sceptically making fun of him. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
Cheering auguries there were in plenty, but we guardedly declined to be cheered, and pretended to snigger sceptically at the auguries. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
"Does she mean it?" asked Ryder, Sr., sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference
Some of them take it sceptically, but take it nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page] Reference
"Do you think he could do it?" asked Mrs. March, sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
"Prejudices against a thousand million dollars?" he exclaimed sceptically. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life] Reference
There is nothing merely sceptically progressive about Mr. Rudyard Kipling. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
He added, "we now know" how various other sceptically tinged papers had got into GRL. From Wordnik.com. [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference
I laughed sceptically; and he flinched, but repeated that what he had said was only the truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Guest of Quesnay] Reference
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