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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

Inkredulity iz the wisdum ov a phool; it iz only a wize man who kan afford tew be credulous.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

He who commands himself not to be credulous of God, of duty, of freedom, of immortality, may again and again be indistinguishable from him who dogmatically denies them.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

It is equally disastrous to be a sceptic and to be credulous.

From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke




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