disbelieve
verb (used with object)
to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in.
disbelieving
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present participleof disbelieve.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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a word derived from
disbelieve.
disbelieveverb (used with object)to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in.
Example Sentences
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The other disbelieving intellectuals continued to write and publish but seemed to make less news by their pronouncements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Frazzled housewives were a specialty: She was Richard Dreyfuss’ alarmed spouse in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” John Denver’s disbelieving wife in “Oh, God!” and a workaholic mother opposite Michael Keaton in “Mr. Mom.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
Sheen’s remarkable performance dominates this compelling three-part Amazon film, A Very Royal Scandal, as he captures a prince angry and disbelieving at his collapsing status.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
They look disbelieving but I walk with them to Plankinton and show them an address on a seemingly abandoned building and explain the numbering system again.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024
It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
