gullibility
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In the aftermath of the infamous tech-stock bubble of 1999-2000, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNeely mocked the gullibility of stock-market investors who had chased stocks to ridiculous levels.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
"I feel great pain and shame that my gullibility and my naivety led to such catastrophic consequences. I didn't want to hurt anyone," Trepova told the court this week, quoted by Reuters.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
A former restaurant tycoon turned mercenary leader, Prigozhin was done in by some of his most famous traits—brazen imprudence, overweening self-confidence, and blithe gullibility toward his own P.R.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2023
We will believe some fad diet because we're such a highly optimistic country, but the drawback, or the flip side, of optimism is gullibility.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022
It is, in intention, a public mockery of our credulity, our gullibility, our stupidity—engineered, with incredible impudence, by this person who stands here before us today.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing gullibility
Across Five Aprils
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Vocabulary from the Wisdom and Work of Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
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English Language Development Texts, Unit 3
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