noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
healthy respect/disrespect/scepticism etc
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a healthy disrespect for silly regulations
view sth with caution/suspicion/scepticism etc
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The local people viewed newcomers with suspicion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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There may be considerable scepticism about Pascal's case for always wagering on the outsider if the odds are high enough.
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There is considerable scepticism about the measure, as the right hon. Gentleman knows.
healthy
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We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest.
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A few people, very few, had a healthy scepticism .
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But this went much further than healthy scepticism .
■ VERB
express
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He expressed his scepticism about the usefulness of techniques such as the envoy.
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He has expressed scepticism about the significance of linguistics for language teaching.
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Many community health workers attended and expressed their scepticism about moves to greater integration.
greet
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Small wonder then that yesterday's new dawn was greeted with scepticism at the chalk face.
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These findings were greeted with scepticism by the motor vehicle industry, the oil industry, and the vehicle-loving public.
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This claim was greeted with scepticism by both campaigners and foreign diplomats.
view
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Such assertions have to be viewed with some scepticism .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, sophisticated econometric analyses of balance of payments behaviour should be treated with strong scepticism .
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For this reason, arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism .
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He found in Byers a bracing scepticism like his own.
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I suspect this, like compulsory religious education, gave me a lifelong scepticism about obligatory elements in any curriculum.
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Like policemen, they have a hardened scepticism about humanity.
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Public scepticism and opposition had to be overcome before the system could function effectively, he said.
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Some people claim otherwise and argue vociferously for complete scepticism .
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Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth's six-page statement, the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism .