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skeptic

or 蝉肠别辫路迟颈肠

[ skep-tik ]

noun

  1. a person who questions the validity or authenticity of something purporting to be factual.
  2. a person who maintains a doubting attitude, as toward values, plans, statements, or the character of others.
  3. a person who doubts the truth of a religion, especially Christianity, or of important elements of it.

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  4. (initial capital letter) Philosophy.
    1. a member of a philosophical school of ancient Greece, the earliest group of which consisted of Pyrrho and his followers, who maintained that real knowledge of things is impossible.
    2. any later thinker who doubts or questions the possibility of real knowledge of any kind.


adjective

  1. pertaining to skeptics or skepticism; skeptical.
  2. (initial capital letter) pertaining to the Skeptics.

skeptic

/ 藞蝉办蓻辫迟瑟办 /

noun

  1. an archaic, and the usual US, spelling of sceptic
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉办别辫迟颈肠颈蝉尘, noun
  • 藞蝉办别辫迟颈肠补濒苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 藞蝉办别辫迟颈肠补濒, adjective
  • 藞蝉办别辫迟颈肠补濒ly, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补苍顎卼颈路蝉办别辫顎僼颈肠 noun
  • 苍辞苍路蝉办别辫顎僼颈肠 adjective noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of skeptic1

1565鈥75; < Late Latin scepticus thoughtful, inquiring (in plural 厂肠别辫迟颈肠墨 the Skeptics) < Greek 蝉办别辫迟颈办贸蝉, equivalent to 蝉办茅辫迟 ( esthai ) to consider, examine (akin to 蝉办辞辫别卯苍 to look; -scope ) + -ikos -ic
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In the chapter鈥檚 introduction, she urges coastal skeptics to come down from their high horses and consider what these dishes are actually doing.

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Since they first conceived of the study, President Trump took office and appointed as secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic and skeptic of established vaccine science.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again 鈥 this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum.

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That hasn鈥檛 stopped Health and Human Services from recently appointing a discredited vaccine skeptic to investigate this link.

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Five years on, science skeptics now sit in the highest offices.

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