gullible

in a sentence

A tale told to frighten the gullible.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

They had become quite deft at sifting accurate information out of the stories of the hopelessly ignorant, gullible news writers.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Frankly, they're not very bright. Or maybe they're just really gullible.  (source) Lincoln Pierce, Big Nate - In a Class by Himself, 2010

Emily hadn't seen them in years, and wondered if they were still as gullible as they used to be.  (source) Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars, 2006

Black people who had witnessed this all over the country could only despair at the gullibility of white people who, seeing all this, swallowed the old line that it was caused by communists and black agitators.  (source) John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1961

And the curious people laughed and were discussing how foolishly and gullibly the common people were spreading such empty rumours.†  (source) Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, 1951

The great old human gullibilities.†  (source) Don DeLillo, White Noise, 1985

I stood there pitying Mr. Ludsbury for his fatal thinness and reflecting that after all he had always had a gullible side.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Oh Lord, let no weak gullibility on my part endanger another's life.†  (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

Lucky for me, Mom was gullible enough to believe me whenever I told her everything was fine over the phone, despite my less than awesome acting abilities.  (source) Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), 2011

More often than not, she took them to be a deliberate affront to her lack of education and (earlier) gullibility.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

"I was just thinking," said the spider, "that people are very gullible."  (source) E. B. White, Charlotte's Web, 1952

Oh, the gullibility.†  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001