doubt

Related to doubt: Reasonable Doubt
See:
  • a doubting Thomas
  • benefit of the doubt
  • benefit of the doubt, to give/have the
  • beyond (a) doubt
  • beyond a doubt
  • beyond a reasonable doubt
  • beyond a/the shadow of a doubt
  • beyond the/a shadow of (a) doubt
  • beyond/without a shadow of doubt
  • cast doubt
  • cast doubt on
  • cast doubt on (someone or something)
  • doubting Thomas
  • get the benefit of the doubt
  • give (someone or something) the benefit of the doubt
  • give somebody the benefit of the doubt
  • give someone the benefit of the doubt
  • give the benefit of the doubt
  • have (one's) doubts (about someone or something)
  • have doubts about
  • have your doubts
  • I doubt it
  • I doubt it/that
  • I doubt that
  • in doubt
  • no doubt
  • no doubt about it
  • plant a/the seed of doubt (in someone's mind)
  • room for doubt
  • sow a/the seed of doubt (in someone's mind)
  • the benefit of the doubt
  • when in doubt, do nothing
  • without a doubt
  • without a shadow of a doubt
  • without doubt
  • without the/a shadow of (a) doubt
  • without/beyond doubt
References in classic literature
Miss Garth's doubts thronged back irresistibly on her mind as she sealed her letter to Mrs.
Vanstone then proceeded to say that she would at once set all Miss Garth's doubts at rest, so far as they related to herself, by one plain acknowledgment.
Inexpressibly frightened and believing, no doubt (with some reason, too) that brutes without meant brutality within, he hobbled away from all the houses, and with gray, wet fields to right of him and gray, wet fields to left of him--with the rain half blinding him and the night coming in mist and darkness, held his way along the road that leads to Greenton.
He had apparently entered the cemetery gate--hoping, perhaps, that it led to a house where there was no dog--and gone blundering about in the darkness, falling over many a grave, no doubt, until he had tired of it all and given up.
You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together.
Nothing in my opinion has ever passed to justify doubt; no secrecy has been attempted; all has been uniformly open and unreserved.
When those days come for us, the doubts and fears that you don't feel now will find their way to you then.
Hereupon the sister of Scheherazade, as I have it from the "Isitsoornot," expressed no very particular intensity of gratification; but the king, having been sufficiently pinched, at length ceased snoring, and finally said, "hum!" and then "hoo!" when the queen, understanding these words (which are no doubt Arabic) to signify that he was all attention, and would do his best not to snore any more -- the queen, I say, having arranged these matters to her satisfaction, re-entered thus, at once, into the history of Sinbad the sailor:
Presently it grew louder, and then still louder, so that we could have no doubt that the object which caused it was approaching us.
To solve this question, Mr Swiveller summoned the handmaid and ascertained that Miss Sophy Wackles had indeed left the letter with her own hands; and that she had come accompanied, for decorum's sake no doubt, by a younger Miss Wackles; and that on learning that Mr Swiveller was at home and being requested to walk upstairs, she was extremely shocked and professed that she would rather die.
"You say that, mother, as if you doubt whether Miss Dunross told me the truth."
And I had no doubt that I must wrestle against that as a great temptation, and the command was clear that I must go away."
That life I have led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment to follow the voice which calls me to another land that I know not, I cannot but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters there is not perfect love.
I cannot doubt that Stapleton recruited his waning resources in this fashion, and that for years he has been a desperate and dangerous man.
Their particular phase of doubt, of philosophic uncertainty, has been the secret of millions of good Christians, multitudes of worthy priests.