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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 may be credulous, but I will do nothing to commit myself to evil.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He began to be credulous precisely at the point where the most credulous people begin to be sceptical.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

If it wasn't that he's absorbed in realism and therefore has to adopt the garments of the cynic he'd be—he'd be credulous as a college religious leader.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)




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