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
My problem here was being too credulous of polls of hypothetical events.
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Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
Editors’ Picks Dornford-May is a convincing ingénue, by turns goofily girlish and stubbornly credulous.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
The young men Mangum accused will never get back what her unfounded accusations and a credulous media landscape took from them.
—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
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Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
Editors’ Picks Dornford-May is a convincing ingénue, by turns goofily girlish and stubbornly credulous.
—Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
The young men Mangum accused will never get back what her unfounded accusations and a credulous media landscape took from them.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for credulous
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The credulous faith that these superpowers will voluntarily settle for some form of peaceful coexistence, if only they are sufficiently propitiated with concessions, is naive and dangerous.—
Michael Miklaucic,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2025
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Similarly naive are Trump’s and Biden’s attempts to regulate access to AI information — such as China’s AI restrictions.—
Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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There was a lot to unpack in that episode about Eli and Aimee-Leigh, who never actually believed that Y2K was a threat, just another opportunity to soak their gullible parishioners for money.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2025
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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
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That innocent people are disappearing into El Salvador’s prisons is no secret—making the embrace of Bukele a disturbing signal of just how far a strongman can go without losing political ground.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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His innocent questions were always softened by stoner jokes.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The treatment was derived from human embryonic stem cells, which researchers had coaxed into becoming immature brain cells called neuron progenitors.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2025
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Despite her experiences, Ellie is still emotionally immature, seeing independence as its own authority.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Credulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/credulous. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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