disbelieve
verb (used with object)
to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in.
have disbelieved
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present perfectof disbelieve.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Chief Justice Roberts dismissed the arguments as speculation and said the fact that the jury might have disbelieved the statements “gives us no confidence that it would have done so.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012
You have disbelieved in insurance so strongly and so long that such a remark was exactly what I expected you to make.
From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
I beseech Thee by Thy Name, the Restrainer, to withhold from us the maleficence of Thine adversaries who have disbelieved in Thy testimony, and caviled at Thy beauty.
From Prayers and Meditations by Bahá'u'lláh
I have been told that my friends have disbelieved this statement.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
No one would have disbelieved him then—not that fickle, motley crowd surely, who with its own characteristic inconsequence had suddenly taken the accused to its heart.
From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
