How to Use credulous in a Sentence

credulous

adjective
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  • Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense.
  • Once the tap shoes come out, even the most credulous viewer has to catch on.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In that sense, not all the blame can be placed on the most credulous members of the public.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • While Noah plays the credulous fool who's convinced by the ad, Williams proceeds to tear it—and Cruz—apart.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2016
  • That is the path to pursue, not more credulous deal-making.
    — John Bolton, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • Indeed, credulous newsrooms claimed at the time, the ...
    — Becket Adams, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The more credulous members of the media too often bought that act.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
  • Some of your friends at your newspaper have been a bit credulous.
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • And the Parks, or at least their fussy, fluttery young matriarch, Yeon-keo (Yeo-jeong Jo), are a very credulous people.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Xi also toes the Davos line on climate change, to the delight of credulous Westerners.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 July 2017
  • The cost of Fyre wasn’t to investors and credulous hipsters who wanted to party with Major Lazer and Blink-182 on a white-sand beach.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
  • If mystery novels appeal to the credulous child in me, true crime stories speak to my inner voyeur.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • But equally deserving of scorn are all the credulous rich and powerful old men who bought into this house of cards.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2018
  • Now, the inhabitants are a credulous, inbred bunch, prone to mottled skin, patches of white hair and walking in their sleep.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The judge in Riley’s case, a former prosecutor named John McBain, was more credulous.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • In his announcement to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, President Trump squeezed in a credulous claim that his nine-day trip abroad was a boon for jobs at home.
    — Linda Qiu, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • Go back over the book again, giving it a sympathetic but not credulous reading.
    — Walter Frick, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Invited into the home of a credulous couple, the impostor announces his plan to make a film starring their adult son.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • Many fans are getting off on having the permission to be openly credulous about his star power.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The credulous Times falling into the right-wing’s projection.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Both parties are given equal time and credulous treatment.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The problem with woo is the mindset: a credulous, mush-brained approach to subjects that require study, hard thinking, and real evidence.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Does the claim sound too breathless, too credulous, too hyperbolic?
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • The key point from the securities board is to use extra caution with these assets, since bad folks have a pattern of taking advantage of the credulous investors.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Few people are as credulous as Lear or have children as exploitative as Goneril and Regan.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • At one startling point, the survivor even dresses up as the deceased, with a fake bullet hole in his temple, in order to console his credulous mother, who worries that the ghost of her son may not find peace.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • In short, between this and other recent conduct, the threat demonstrates that anti-Trump vigor -- like pro-Trump vigor -- is not a good reason to put credulous trust in someone.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 May 2018
  • The tweet is a typical Yangism — tone deaf, credulous, but broadly appealing to people who don’t want to do any critical thinking about a subject.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The audience for this performance of fake virtue consists solely of Manchin himself, a few of his centrist colleagues, and the overly credulous members of the Washington press corps.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 29 June 2021
  • That’s how Weir and Niccol reward the stupidity of credulous viewers.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023

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