as in naive
too willing to believe things without substantial proof
Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense. a credulous audience
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Recent Examples of credulous
The young men Mangum accused will never get back what her unfounded accusations and a credulous media landscape took from them.
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The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
Such pronouncements have often elicited credulous reactions from Musk’s interviewers.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
His reflexive tendency to extend Lindsay the benefit of the doubt seemed both credulous and entirely rational.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Nothing about the man, his music preeminently, flattered the worldview of the credulous teenager.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
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The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
Such pronouncements have often elicited credulous reactions from Musk’s interviewers.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
His reflexive tendency to extend Lindsay the benefit of the doubt seemed both credulous and entirely rational.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Nothing about the man, his music preeminently, flattered the worldview of the credulous teenager.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for credulous
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From there sprung Brian, played by Lou Taylor Pucci, an alien who looks like a new-age guru in a tracksuit, and, depending on the scene, can be naive, manipulative, aloof, romantic, cruel and even self-pitying.—
William Earl,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2025
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Things were exacerbated by naive decisions made by United players on both sides of the ball.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Their nation now appeared vulnerable and gullible in the eyes of the world—and they’d been cheated out of $7,000.—
Peter Zablocki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2025
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But this young man has shown me how others see me now: old, gullible, vulnerable.—
Fabiola Santiago,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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One day, during an innocent prank call in a phone booth, Richard shockingly witnesses his classmate violently get sucked into the phone receiver and disappear without a trace.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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After a 16-month war that started with the horrific killing of 1,200 innocent Israelis and abduction of 250 more by Hamas terrorists and then the killing of more than 47,500 people in Gaza — mostly women and children — a fragile ceasefire began Jan. 19.—
Mike Quigley,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Edamame Edamame are immature green soybeans high in protein, fiber, iron, vitamin C, and calcium.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
6 Feb. 2025
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People who are emotionally immature often won’t take responsibility for their own actions when something goes wrong.—
Kathy and Ross Petras, Contributors,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Credulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/credulous. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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