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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

If it wasn't that he's absorbed in realism and therefore has to adopt the garments of the cynic he'd be—he'd be credulous as a college religious leader.

From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

But to imagine that these commonplaces promise alliance or protection, is to be credulous indeed!

From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Mary L. (Mary Louise) Booth

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


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