gullibility
Example Sentences
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There are the shamefaced former members, who confess their gullibility as a kind of penance; there are the cockamamie claims on which the belief system is based.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
At age 37, she became a case study in gullibility and greed.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025
In the aftermath of the infamous tech-stock bubble of 1999-2000, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNeely mocked the gullibility of stock-market investors who had chased stocks to ridiculous levels.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
"I feel great pain and shame that my gullibility and my naivety led to such catastrophic consequences. I didn't want to hurt anyone," Trepova told the court this week, quoted by Reuters.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing gullibility
Across Five Aprils
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Vocabulary from the Wisdom and Work of Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 3
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