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sceptically

sceptically is the alternative form of skeptically.

Meaning of skeptically

Adverb

skeptically (comparative more skeptically, superlative most skeptically)

  1. (US) In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.
    • 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 of sceptically

comparativemore sceptically
superlativemost sceptically

Origin of sceptically

From sceptic + -ally.

Questions about sceptically

What is sceptically the alternative form of?
Sceptically is the alternative form of skeptically.

Words near sceptically in the dictionary

  1. scepterless
  2. scepters
  3. sceptic
  4. sceptical
  5. scepticality
  6. sceptically
  7. scepticalness
  8. scepticise
  9. scepticised
  10. scepticises
  11. scepticising

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