credulous

Example Sentences

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Mr. Carlson’s warm, credulous interview was nothing like his aggressive June episode with Mr. Cruz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

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

Enough people are credulous or at least disingenuous enough to think that "I'm a woman, which means I can't hate other women" is an actual argument.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2025

Such pronouncements have often elicited credulous reactions from Musk’s interviewers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 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