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be credulous



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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

Is it, then, credulity we wish to develop in our children, merely because they show themselves to be credulous at an age when they are naturally ignorant and immature?

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria

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

It must be said, however, that as to anecdotes touching their heroes, biographers are greatly prone to be credulous.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton




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