credulous

Example Sentences

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Mr. Ariosto’s credulous description of warp drives isn’t the only misstep in the book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

I think that leaves us with the burning question you and I are now asking every week: Are the justices really that naive and credulous?

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025

He was already benefitting from credulous coverage from mainstream news organizations repackaging his open hatred of medical science as "tough" on Big Pharma or "promoting" healthy diets, all of which is flat-out false.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

A credulous media exacerbated the hysteria with “an echo chamber of horrors,” in the words of Times media critic David Shaw, who eviscerated the pack-journalism coverage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton