Orlando Figes, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is properly skeptical of such excuses.

Jack is properly skeptical about her story.

Levi is properly skeptical about what seems a touch of wishfulness on the part of another thinking man.

Mr. Broomfield is properly skeptical about most of the people he interviews; corroborating evidence for their stories, he shows, is hard to come by.

F'lar looked properly skeptical, although Lessa did not miss the gleam of excitement in his eyes.

Among the questions raised: Was the paper properly skeptical of officialdom, in this case the Bush administration?

But the committee's plan to take the testimony in closed session is hardly a way to reassure a properly skeptical public about its dedication to get to the bottom of things.

He said he felt his report was properly skeptical.

As a result, Ojime was properly skeptical of those who characterized themselves as righteous, divining in their strict rectitude the bud of evil and twisted psychosis.

Hoffman is properly skeptical of the notion that actual trauma can be transmitted across the generations.