Both Uses of
credulous
in
Alias Grace
- It's too theatrical, too tawdry, thinks Simon; it reeks of the small-town lecture halls of fifteen years ago, with their audiences of credulous store clerks and laconic farmers, and their drab wives, and the smooth-talking charlatans who used to dole out transcendental nonsense and quack medical advice to them as an excuse for picking their pockets.†
Chpt 13credulous = gullible (being too willing to believe)
- So I fear that your Dr. Jordan is either credulous to an infantile degree, or himself a great scoundrel;
Chpt 14 *