News of the company's expansion plans was greeted with scepticism by the local community.

Tom seemed sceptical.

They are sceptical of all the newcomers.

The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

You're wrong. I'm not pessimistic, but sceptical.

The scepticism is not entirely unwarranted: many journalists have warned that the government is not being entirely truthful.

I'm very sceptical about their claims.

Dr Tyler expressed scepticism at Dr Ramsay's revolutionary new therapy.