cast doubt

cast doubt

To cause someone or something to be viewed with doubt, skepticism, or uncertainty. Why did you change your mind about giving Walt the promotion? Did something happen to cast doubt?
See also: cast, doubt

cast doubt on (someone or something)

To cause someone or something to be viewed with doubt, skepticism, or uncertainty. I considered Walt for the promotion, but his constant lateness soon cast doubt on that decision. Such a significant error really cast doubt on all of the experiment's results.
See also: cast, doubt, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cast doubt(s) (on someone or something)

to cause someone or something to be doubted. The police cast doubt on my story. How can they cast doubt? They haven't looked into it yet. The city council cast doubt on John and his plan.
See also: cast, doubt
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • cast doubt on (someone or something)
  • cast doubt on
  • call (someone or something) into question
  • call in question
  • call into question
  • bring (someone or something) into question
  • bring into question
  • bring/call/throw something into question
  • consider
  • consider (someone) for (something)
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GE's conference call with analysts also cast doubt on the outlook.
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Kiev [Ukraine], May 27 ( ANI ): A few minutes after clinching a third Champions League trophy in three years, legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo cast doubt over his future with Real Madrid.
Ronaldo hints at Real Madrid exit?
O'Sullivan has won the title in the two previous years the event has been held, but he has now cast doubt on his participation after he told fans on Twitter that he had no plans to take part in the tournament.
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Their findings, published in the European Pain Journal, cast doubt on the notion of routinely using paracetamol as your first choice painkiller.
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KEVIN KEEGAN has cast doubt on David Beckham's hopes of making another England comeback or even coping with a return to the Barclays Premier League.
Beckham not up to it - Kev; Keegan doubts star's Prem credentials
Summary: Tehran on Tuesday cast doubt on the authenticity of documents published by WikiLeaks and told its Arab neighbors not to fall into the whistleblower's "trap."
Iran: WikiLeaks documents aim to protect Israel
The Manchester City star's Wales future remains up in the air after boss John Toshack cast doubt on his long-term role ahead of the Euro 2012 campaign.
COLLINS BACKS CRAIG RETURN
Summary: A survey of more than 5,500 firms has cast doubt on whether the UK really did emerge from recession between July and September.
Doubt over recession end
TOKYO - Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano on Friday cast doubt on the effectiveness of new policies under consideration by the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan ahead of the forthcoming general election.
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Other researchers cast doubt on that idea, noting that hip joints permitting such flexibility aren't found in any related dinosaur.
Ancient glider: dinosaur took to the air in biplane style
EADS finance head Hans Peter Ring meanwhile cast doubt over the A380 freighter version -- UPS has 10 on order, while International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) has five The biggest buyer of the world's biggest plane, Emirates, said last month it would send its own audit team to Airbus before entering talks to address the A380's two-year delay.
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Some writers have attempted to cast its creators as committed communists, but post-perestroika scholarship has cast doubt on that interpretation.
The eccentric revolutionaries: banned for decades in the Soviet Union, a subversive comedy finally comes to DVD
Because it is a fact not open to irrefutable proof--like say two and two equal four-although it is altogether likely that advanced mathematicians can cast doubt even on that modest proposal.
Attitudes
With such a comparison, one may recognize how Handforth, taking formalism into a narrative practice, also manages to cast doubt on the reliability of our very sense of perception by distorting a commonplace thing, thereby thrusting it into a realm of uncertainty.
Mark Handforth: Kunsthaus Zurich