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View definitions for gullible person

gullible person

noun as in babe in the woods

noun as in ingenue

noun as in lamb

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Example Sentences

Girkin said Putin was "an extremely gullible person".

From Reuters

My sister Connie has lots of good qualities, and I love her, but she’s the most gullible person in the world.

From Slate

Meantime, the relentless Bigfoot/gullible person entertainment complex — the persistence and seeming expansion of which, frankly, prompted the piece in the first place — continued to crank out faux documentaries about supposed tantalizing new discoveries putting dogged Bigfoot researchers within sniffing distance, but never actually in sight of, the fabled, nonexistent creature.

Like the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester United has become less a sporting concern than a luxury imprint, something that, fairly or not—historic, geographic, and familial ties to the team being granted—when plastered on a person or their property, communicates to much of the world that its bearer is a particular kind of front-running yet gullible person.

From Slate

“Not everyone understood it. But when it comes to parody, the law requires a reasonable reader standard, not a ‘most gullible person on Facebook’ standard,” he wrote.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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