Adjective

(en adjective)

Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.

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Xodar listened in incredulous astonishment to my narration of the events which had transpired within the arena at the rites of Issus.

Expressing or indicative of incredulity.

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Reactions at Sun's campus, an hour's drive from San Francisco, ranged from the fearful to the incredulous .

* 1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , III.4:

Why euery thing adheres togither, that no dramme of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or vnsafe circumstance [...].

* 1984 , , opinion in People v Terrell'', 459 N.E.2d 1337, ^] quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, ''Criminal Law ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=2ipUSeStAzQC} Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,

Faced with these facts, we find it incredulous that [the] defendant had any intent other than the armed robbery of the service station.

Adjective

(er)

Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.

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Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation

Spurious, artificial.

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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.

Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.

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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.

Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.

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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:whose false foundation waves have swept away

Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.

(lb) Out of tune.