Definition of "disbelieved" [disbelieved]

• Simple past tense and past participle of disbelieve. (verb)
• Not believed; discounted; discredited; ignored. (adjective)

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• "To have his word disbelieved was the one thing fatal to Gammon's temper."
• "On the government side, the widely disbelieved big society and a relish in cost-cutting that would once have pleased an Aberdeen grocer; from the opposition, a blank sheet of paper."
• "Rape victims want and need to have their truth recognised and to see their attackers branded guilty; far better to achieve that at the expense of longer jail terms than watch so many rapists wriggling free with victims feeling disbelieved and twice damaged."