CREDULOUS in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for CREDULOUS, such as:
1. The rascal lives on the credulity of the people.
2. His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.
3. They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
4. They are credulous people who believe in the advertisement.
5. A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
2. His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.
3. They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
4. They are credulous people who believe in the advertisement.
5. A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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Meanings and Examples of CREDULOUS
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credulous
a. showing a lack of judgment or experience
a. disposed to believe on little evidence
Classic Sentence:
1 A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life.
2 She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
3 Nor, credulous as such minds must have been, was this conceit altogether without some faint show of superstitious probability.
4 The awe-stricken credulous slaves in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the fallen angels.
5 To the credulous mariners it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
6 But the world listened only half credulously until the Fisk Jubilee Singers sang the slave songs so deeply into the world's heart that it can never wholly forget them again.
7 Bertha has been behaving more than ever like a madwoman, and George's powers of credulity are very nearly exhausted.
8 Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
9 As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm.
10 But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.
11 His voice alone inspires one with absolute credulity.
12 Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
13 Antonia had the most trusting, responsive eyes in the world; love and credulousness seemed to look out of them with open faces.
Example Sentence:
1 They are credulous people who believe in the advertisement.
2 He tried to practice upon the imagination and credulity of the public.
3 Her latest version of events strained their credulity still further.
4 A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
5 They seem to equate intelligent belief with credulity.
6 The rascal lives on the credulity of the people.