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Definition of Sceptically
1. Adverb. With scepticism; in a sceptical manner. "He looked at her sceptically"
Definition of Sceptically
1. Adverb. (alternative spelling of skeptically) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceptically
Literary usage of Sceptically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... that hath been suggested by us, we shall not ourselves venture to determine
any thing in so great a point, but sceptically leave it undecided.3 1 We ..."
2. Apparitions: An Essay, Explanatory of Old Facts and a New Theory. To which by Newton Crosland (1873)
"She vacantly stares at the pillar of flame offered for her guidance, and sceptically
calls it an ignis fatuus; she childishly resigns one- half of her ..."
3. Apparitions: An Essay, Explanatory of Old Facts and a New Theory. To which by Newton Crosland (1873)
"She vacantly stares at the pillar of flame offered for her guidance, and sceptically
calls it an ignis fatuus ; she childishly resigns one- half of her ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1898)
"... most sceptically .with regard to the historicity of Genesis xiv. in general,
and far more sceptically than many other "critics" (eg Dillmann). ..."
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