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The trick would fool none but the most credulous.credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
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She is so credulous she believes everything she reads.
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The more credulous townsfolk called it a sign from God. (source)
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Her eternal smile seemed to have been brought on by the credulity of her customers, who accepted as something certain an establishment that did not exist except in the imagination, because even the tangible things there were unreal: (source)credulity = gullibility (being too willing to believe)
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...the hymn's grave language sung in so credulous a spirit moved him, (source)credulous = eager belief
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So I fear that your Dr. Jordan is either credulous to an infantile degree, or himself a great scoundrel; (source)credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
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His face bloomed with incredulity and rage.† (source)incredulity = a state of not believingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incredulity means not and reverses the meaning of credulity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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But McWatt winked at him reassuringly as he climbed down from the plane and joshed hospitably with the credulous new pilot and bombardier during the jeep ride back to the squadron, (source)credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
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In some way that I couldn't explain, I knew that his scorn of my childish credulity was right. (source)credulity = gullibility (the trait of being too willing to believe)
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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.† (source)credulously = in a manner that is believable
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Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.† (source)
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Antonia had the most trusting, responsive eyes in the world; love and credulousness seemed to look out of them with open faces. (source)credulousness = trust (readiness to believe)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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But his grief at her incredulities returned.† (source)incredulities = things that could not be believedstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incredulities means not and reverses the meaning of credulities. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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The girl looked at the Count with an expression of incredulity.† (source)incredulity = a state of not believing
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She stared at him as if unused to consideration, hardly credulous, almost suspicious. (source)credulous = believing
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It was a bit more than credulity could bear (source)credulity = willingness to believe
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