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
Yet after all they were ignorant, especially of themselves; and such people always were and always will be credulous.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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
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
