Thesaurus / credulous
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You’d have to be very credulous to believe that the unexpected triumphs of runners like Gebre and Tilahun weren’t at all a factor when NYRR decided to sever its elite men’s start from Wave 1.
SHOULD ROAD RACES SEPARATE THE PROS FROM THE MASSES?MMIRHASHEMNOVEMBER 17, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINENow, intelligence officials and lawmakers are all but begging Americans to be less credulous with what they see and hear online amid new allegations that actors from Iran emailed individual voter-intimidation efforts.
IRAN BEHIND SUPPOSED “PROUD BOYS” VOTER-INTIMIDATION EMAILS, FEDS ALLEGEKATE COXOCTOBER 22, 2020ARS TECHNICAThey emanated from a credulous and superstitious people in an unscientific age and country.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDSeriously, my dear Boulingrin, that there are moments when I wonder which of us two is the more credulous in respect of fairies.
THE STORY OF THE DUCHESS OF CICOGNE AND OF MONSIEUR DE BOULINGRINANATOLE FRANCEPaterson buried his wife in that soil which, as he had assured his too credulous countrymen, exhaled health and vigour.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYIt was once the fashion to speak of Herodotus as a credulous man, who embodied the most improbable though interesting stories.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDOthers, more timid or less credulous, hesitated in believing those marvels.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEBut an ignorant person is as obstinate in his contemptuous incredulity as he is unreasonably credulous.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLIf he were inclined to be credulous, this was second sight I had.
SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDEMARK IRVIN CLIFTONBut poor James Carey, who had been credulous and weak, was made of other stuff.
A HOUSEFUL OF GIRLSSARAH TYTLERWORDS RELATED TO CREDULOUS
- artless
- being oneself
- candid
- childlike
- credulous
- direct
- easy
- folksy
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- homey
- ignorant
- impulsive
- inartificial
- ingenuous
- innocent
- instinctive
- laid-back
- naive
- plain
- primitive
- provincial
- real
- rustic
- simple
- simplehearted
- sincere
- spontaneous
- straightforward
- trusting
- unassumed
- uncontrived
- undesigning
- unembarrassed
- unfeigned
- unforced
- unlabored
- unpolished
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- unstudied
- unworldly
- aboveboard
- artless
- callow
- candid
- confiding
- countrified
- credulous
- forthright
- frank
- fresh
- green
- guileless
- gullible
- harmless
- ignorant
- impulsive
- ingenuous
- innocent
- innocuous
- instinctive
- jejune
- lamb
- like a babe in the woods
- natural
- open
- original
- patsy
- plain
- simple
- simple-minded
- sincere
- spontaneous
- square
- sucker
- unaffected
- unjaded
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- unsuspecting
- unsuspicious
- untaught
- unworldly
- virgin
- wide-eyed
- artless
- being oneself
- candid
- childlike
- credulous
- direct
- easy
- folksy
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- homey
- ignorant
- impulsive
- inartificial
- ingenuous
- innocent
- instinctive
- laid-back
- naive
- plain
- primitive
- provincial
- real
- rustic
- simple
- simplehearted
- sincere
- spontaneous
- straightforward
- trusting
- unassumed
- uncontrived
- undesigning
- unembarrassed
- unfeigned
- unforced
- unlabored
- unpolished
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- unstudied
- unworldly
- up-front
- amateur
- asinine
- backward
- brainless
- credulous
- dense
- dimwitted
- dull
- dumb
- fat
- feeble
- foolish
- green
- gullible
- half-witted
- idiotic
- ignorant
- illiterate
- imbecile
- inane
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- insensate
- mindless
- moronic
- nitwitted
- obtuse
- senseless
- shallow
- silly
- simple-minded
- slow
- soft
- soft-headed
- stupid
- thick
- uneducated
- unintelligent
- witless
- amateur
- asinine
- backward
- brainless
- credulous
- dense
- dimwitted
- dull
- dumb
- fat
- feeble
- foolish
- green
- gullible
- half-witted
- idiotic
- ignorant
- illiterate
- imbecile
- inane
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- insensate
- mindless
- moronic
- nitwitted
- obtuse
- senseless
- shallow
- silly
- simple-minded
- slow
- soft
- soft-headed
- stupid
- thick
- uneducated
- unintelligent
- witless
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