credulously

Example Sentences

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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

Prosecutors say Danchenko should have been more forthcoming about his own sources and that if he had done so, the FBI would not have treated the dossier as credulously as it did.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022

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

Fattucci begins by declaring that he is wholly guiltless of things which his friend too credulously believed upon the strength of gossip.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington