disbelieved

verb

past tense of disbelieve
as in denied
to think not to be true or real many disbelieved the medium's claims that she could communicate with the spirits of the dead

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Recent Examples of disbelieved Epstein’s young victims were also threatened and followed; they were grilled by his lawyers and disbelieved by prosecutors, who at times treated them like prostitutes, instead of victims. — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025 And a woman can behave perfectly and still be disbelieved. — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025 After launching an investigation, the Assemblies of God revoked Stewart’s credentials and dismissed several other Chi Alpha ministers, including Jackson, who had disbelieved Salgado. — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025 This level of support is rare in rape cases, which often see victims disbelieved or vilified. — Chloe Laws, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbelieved
  1. denied
  2. discredited
  3. doubted
Verb
  • In a 2024 interview with TIME, Netanyahu denied making the statement, insisting that the payments were meant to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
  • German authorities blamed that on Russia, an allegation denied by Moscow.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of denied
Verb
  • Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, got all this attention and then got discredited and didn’t replace Barbra Streisand or Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift or the Eurythmics or The Rolling Stones.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Scientists have thoroughly discredited such claims for decades.
    — Ashique KhudaBukhsh, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of discredited
Verb
  • The long delay before Davis was charged did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability, DiGiacomo said.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Bahdanau quietly doubted their potential to achieve anything like human-level intelligence, but his adviser, the computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, and the postdoc on the project, Kyunghyun Cho, were believers.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of doubted

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“Disbelieved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbelieved. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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