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Recent Examples of gullible Bad spelling and grammar ensured that most users deleted the message, leaving only the most gullible users in the pipeline. Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 As a gullible buyer starts to get nervous, the manager accidentally reveals that the salesman has been lying, torpedoing thousands of dollars in commission. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025 Bad spelling and grammar ensured that most users deleted the message, leaving only the most gullible users in the pipeline. Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The results were hilarious, but Gould also won hearts as the affable (if a bit gullible) victim of the ruse. Ew Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gullible
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naive
Adjective
  • Even a naive analysis, one that buys into some very obvious Republican budget tricks, finds that this bill cuts taxes and raises spending by $4 trillion over 10 years — but only pays for about $1.7 trillion of that.
    Ezra Klein, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
  • In the film's early scenes, Cruise displays a naive, unwavering patriotism that seamlessly meshed with the actor's military heroics in Top Gun three years earlier — which makes Kovic's stark transition to impassioned anti-war advocacy all the more surprising in the runtime's second half.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 May 2025

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