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
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 in them or old-fashioned; but it is certainly very unselfish, and when you take their point of view it is certainly very fine.
From Notes of a War Correspondent by Remington, Frederic
If I had not thus prepared myself to be credulous, no mere evidence of films and well-told tales would have persuaded me to believe.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
