be credulous
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you find her advocacy for guns in schools due to the ever-present grizzly threat to be credulous.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2017
Of course, it may be credulous to take Roberts at his word.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2016
But we must not be credulous, and there are three cautions to be borne in mind.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
If he be credulous and trust my tale, I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio, And give assurance to Baptista Minola, As if he were the right Vincentio.
From The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, William
If I had not thus prepared myself to be credulous, no mere evidence of films and well-told tales would have persuaded me to believe.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
