credulous
adjective
willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
credulously
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a word derived from
credulous.
Example Sentences
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ProPublica also credulously cited the yarn about the sick WIV researchers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
Prosecutors say Danchenko should have been more forthcoming about his own sources and that if he had done so, the FBI would not have treated the dossier as credulously as it did.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
But figures including Ellen DeGeneres and “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah stoked the phenomenon more credulously.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
It wasn't sarcastic, and reporters shouldn't quote him credulously about that.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020
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.
From The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
