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
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
We must not be credulous about the unconscious and ascribe to it absurdities, nor must we lose our orientation for surely up and down, right and left, light and dark, do differ.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
But the disciples at Rome about this period were willing to be credulous in such matters; and thus it was that this tale of martyrdom was permitted to pass unchallenged.
From The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
