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gull

[guhl] / gʌl /
VERB
cheat
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Antonyms
STRONG
be honest


NOUN
person easily deceived
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The lab report concluded that flying debris from the tail section mangled a great black-backed gull whose wing was found on a rooftop with other debris.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

The incident unfolded when the low-flying gull got caught in the path of a clearance kick by Istanbul Yurdum Spor's goalkeeper during an amateur playoff match against Mevlanakapi Guzelhisar, a club official told AFP Tuesday.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

Earlier in 2024, scientists detected H5N1 in a kelp gull and two skuas that were found dead in January and February.

From Science Daily Feb. 12, 2026

The area is known for seals and also has the largest tern and black-headed gull colony in mainland Scotland.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

The waves lapped a rhythmic accompaniment and, far in the distance, a sea gull cried.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Their harmonies intertwine like two gulls in flight.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

It warned the oil would kill most of the gulls "sooner or later" as the substance would hinder their ability to keep warm.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

In a recent expedition to Antarctica, new cases were discovered in Antarctic cormorants, kelp gulls, Adelie and gentoo penguins, and Antarctic fur seals, Neira told AFP.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

Instead, the main agents of colonization appear to be gulls, geese, and shorebirds, which carried seeds in their digestive systems or droppings.

From Science Daily Nov. 4, 2025

Lizzie waited for the gulls to return over the high ledge, but they didn’t.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

And they are easily gulled by simple tricks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Laypersons might be gulled into extrapolating from clothes-folding to genuinely complicated tasks, but that would be a mistake.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

It is inconceivable that none of them would have had contact with friends and relatives in the Philippines who might have been gulled by the American disinformation.

From Salon Aug. 3, 2024

An assassin prevented Americans from proving, by spurning Long’s presidential pretenses, that they were less easily gulled than Long assumed.

From Washington Post Nov. 15, 2022

Well, dad, I sincerely trust that your hopes will be realised, and that England will consent to be gulled again for the benefit of a few.

From A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

The city alleged that Siemens had pulled a bait-and-switch, gulling the city into signing a contract lacking that hard-and-fast guarantee.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2022

That is, among those gulling the public, cynicism is a stronger force; among those being gulled, gullibility is, but the two are not so separate as they might seem.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2022

It also has the potential to massively chill free speech by gulling ISPs and websites into either pulling down totally legal material when faced with any sort of complaint, but also proactively policing free expression.

From Time Sep. 4, 2014

The diction was very poor, the gulling scenes rather disappointing for exactly the reasons Michael Billington outlines, and the whole thing could do with some serious cutting.

From The Guardian Aug. 3, 2012

I can't say that I ever admired the general mechanism set up for gulling the public, but I had to learn how it was done, and I set myself to master the whole business.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli




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