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credulously

ADVERB
naively
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In this book, he credulously quotes a venture capitalist speculating that Bankman-Fried “had a real shot at being the world’s first trillionaire.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

And, worse, she credulously repeats phony smears against Mullet that collapse with any scrutiny.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2020

It wasn't sarcastic, and reporters shouldn't quote him credulously about that.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020

Through the Safdies’ eyes, we watch Howard fondly but not quite credulously.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019

They had heard, and they credulously believed, that the republic of Plato was realized in the despotic government of Persia, and that a patriot king reigned ever the happiest and most virtuous of nations.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman




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