Crossword-Solution: SCEPTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sceptic | - | Alt. of Scepticism |
We have 31 clues for the answer “SCEPTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who habitually doubts generally accepted beliefs | 1 answer |
| Pussy keeps heading for cream? I'm not sure | 1 answer |
| Dubious one, in Devonshire | 1 answer |
| Doubter: Var. | 1 answer |
| A person who doubts accepted opinions | 1 answer |
| A doubting Thomas: Var. | 1 answer |
| A doubting Thomas | 1 answer |
| someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | 2 answers |
| One doubting an accepted truth | 2 answers |
| MISTRUSTFUL person | 2 answers |
| HEADSHAKER | 5 answers |
| atheist | 10 answers |
| irreligionist | 11 answers |
| misanthropist | 11 answers |
| disparager | 13 answers |
| Doubting Thomas | 14 answers |
| DISCOURAGING person | 15 answers |
| DESPONDENT person | 17 answers |
| Naysayer | 20 answers |
| Non-believer | 20 answers |
| disbeliever | 21 answers |
| Detractor. | 23 answers |
| doomster | 24 answers |
| cynic | 25 answers |
| Unbeliever | 25 answers |
| doom merchant | 25 answers |
| infidel | 29 answers |
| wet blanket | 30 answers |
| Pessimist | 32 answers |
| COMBATIVE person | 33 answers |
| Doubter | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SCEPTIC (5)
John anticipates another objection that will be made to his Gospel, namely, that so many things therein are not cleared up, that the whole truth is not told in the proper words, the sceptic claiming that everything should have been so proved “That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on”; that all after-doubt, impossible in the face of truth--truth absolute, uniform, might have been stopped.
Even a sceptic, who can see nothing but a travesty of bitter truth in anything holy or emotional, would have been melted to the heart had he seen that little group of loving and devoted friends kneeling round that stricken and sorrowing lady; or heard the tender passion of her husband’s voice, as in tones so broken with emotion that often he had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial of the Dead.
And that I should be the subject--I, the sceptic, the materialist! At least, I have shown that my devotion to science is greater than to my own personal consistency.
Probably the finest instance of this misplacement occurred some years ago in an edition of _Men of the Time_ (1856), where the entry relating to Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, got mixed up with that of Robert Owen, the Socialist, with the result that the bishop was stated to be ``a confirmed sceptic as regards revealed religion, but a believer in Spiritualism.'' It was this kind of blunder which suggested the formation of cross- readings, that were once very popular.
Each of these presents such proof that it is impossible for the sceptic to face them, and he can only avoid them by ignoring them.
Quotes with SCEPTIC (3)
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too littl…
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1954–1992).