credulity

Example Sentences

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Our credulity would snap if Mescal’s Shakespeare was the slick talker that his early biographer John Aubrey described as “very good company, of a very redie and pleasant smoothe Witt.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

For all his acknowledged literary discernment, it is Cowley’s political credulity that has marked his reputation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

But this particular situation stretches one’s credulity to the brink.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

For some residents, though, that has stretched credulity.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2024

Now he said to her, with utmost condescension, “Dear girl, your credulity is as vast as this desert. One might get lost in it and never again encounter fact or reason.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor