All 5 Uses of
credulous
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life.†
Chpt 1credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
- She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
Chpt 1 *
- Much attention and incredulity.†
Chpt 6incredulity = 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.
- For the second of welcome encounter this workman with the bandit mustache and the muddy overalls seemed nearer than any one else to the credulous youth which she was seeking to fight beside her, and she told him, as a cheerful anecdote, a little of her story.†
Chpt 11credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
- I insist that there's only one professional-man's wife in this town who doesn't plot, and that is you, you blessed, credulous outsider!†
Chpt 13