credulity

Example Sentences

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For a few, doubt creeps in, but most overcome their cognitive dissonance and reinflate the bubble of credulity that constitutes their comfort zone.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

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

It is, however, stretching credulity to believe that Yatai, which runs everything in Shwe Kokko, was unable to stop scammers coming in and out of the city.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald