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

All his utterances, for his words should scarcely be dignified with the name of conversation, showed him to be ignorant in the extreme, and to be credulous in proportion.

From Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Higgins, Emily Mayer

Curll was willing to be credulous: having proved to the world he had some originals, he imagined these would sanction even spurious one.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

He who commands himself not to be credulous of God, of duty, of freedom, of immortality, may again and again be indistinguishable from him who dogmatically denies them.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William