be credulous
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you find her advocacy for guns in schools due to the ever-present grizzly threat to be credulous.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2017
Of course, it may be credulous to take Roberts at his word.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2016
It is better to be credulous than bigoted, but to be excessively one or the other is not befitting a philosopher.
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
Curll was willing to be credulous: having proved to the world he had some originals, he imagined these would sanction even spurious one.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
It is no easy matter to convince your hearers of the truth of a story you know to be false, even when those hearers are inclined to be credulous.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace
