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questioningadjective inclined to doubt or question claimsa naturally questioning person, she demands rock-solid proof before she believes anything disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, incredulous, mistrustful, negativistic, show-me, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving paranoid(also paranoidal)critical, puzzled, quizzicalcareful, cautious, guarded, gun-shy, leery(also leary), wary, watchfulcynical, experienced, knowing, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wisecurious, inquiring, inquisitive, nosy(or nosey), snoopyuncertain, unconvinced, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unsurehesitant credulous, gullible(also gullable), trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning green, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve), simple, simpleminded, unknowing, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyedcertain, confident, positive, surecallow, inexperienced, rawchildlike, idealistic, impracticalbeguiled, deceived, duped, gulled, trickedcareless, heedless, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary questioningverbpresent participle of questionto demand proof of the truth or rightness ofthe teenager openly questioned the authority of the town's police force to impose a curfew on residents under the age of 18 challenging, contesting, disputing, impeaching, oppugning, querying doubting, mistrustingkicking (about), objecting (to), protestingcombating(or combatting), fighting, opposing, resisting calling in question(or calling into question) accepting, believing, embracing, swallowing backing, defending, supportingadvocating, championing, promotingabiding, enduring, stomaching, tolerating to give serious and careful thought toquestion your motives before you file the lawsuit: do you really care about the trees, or are you just trying to harass the neighbors? chewing over, cogitating, considering, contemplating, debating, deliberating, entertaining, eyeing(or eying), kicking around, meditating, mulling (over), perpending, pondering, poring (over), revolving, ruminating, studying, thinking (about or over), turning, weighing, wrestling (with) musing (upon), reflecting (on or upon), reminiscinganalyzing, exploring, reviewingconcluding, reasoningsecond-guessing, speculating (about)brooding (about or over), dwelling (on or upon), fixating (on or upon), fretting (about or over), obsessing (about or over)believing, conceiving, opiningabsorbing, assimilating, digesting, drinking (in) beating one's brains out (about), chewing on, cudgeling one's brains (about), looking at disregarding, ignoring, overlooking, slightingdismissing, pooh-poohing(also poohing), rejecting to have no trust or confidence init was apparent that voters were questioning the President's ability to manage the economy distrusting, doubting, misdoubting, mistrusting, suspecting disbelieving, discounting, discrediting, negating trusting banking (on or upon), counting (on or upon), depending (on or upon), relying (on or upon) to put a question or questions tothe press should be allowed to question public officials about any matter of general interest asking, catechizing, grilling, inquiring (of), interrogating, querying, quizzing besieging, bombarding, cross-examining, cross-questioning, examining, pumpingpolling, surveying answering, replying, responding rejoining, retortingcommenting, observing, remarkingavoiding, ducking to put a series of questions tothe police questioned the suspect before deciding that there was insufficient evidence to hold him catechizing, examining, grilling, interrogating, pumping, querying, quizzing, sweating(slang) debriefingcross-examining, cross-questioningannoying, harassing, hounding, pesteringcanvassing(also canvasing), polling giving the third degree to, picking the brains of |