[ verb ] reject as false; refuse to accept <verb.cognition>discredit
Disbelieve \Dis`be*lieve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disbelieved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disbelieving}.] Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. --J. S. Mill.
Chelsea is artificial, a suspension of disbelief. This weekend I can still disbelieve it, especially when looking at the daphnes in my garden. Of all the noble families, daphnes are particularly ill-suited to flower-shows.
Fully 86% disbelieve the administration's claim that high-level officials didn't know what was happening; only 4% believe it.
The director of Indiana's Emergency Management Agency doesn't necessarily believe the forecast, but he doesn't disbelieve it either.
The Shop America executives disbelieve the old saw that the Japanese won't buy American goods even if they're cheaper.
"I tend to disbelieve that number, but it's certainly a number to watch," he said. "That's a very big number." As for job growth last month, a separate department survey of businesses found that only 117,000 non-farm payroll jobs were created.
Moreover the supervisory board was deceived with deliberately falsified information and was therefore prevented from intervening in time.' He said he then had no grounds to disbelieve Mr Schimmelbusch.
They say (but you disbelieve them) that they have pulled many smarter raps.
"It's strange to me that if people totally disbelieve it, why do they persist?"