gullible
adjective
easily deceived or cheated.
gullibility
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a word derived from
gullible.
Example Sentences
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There are the shamefaced former members, who confess their gullibility as a kind of penance; there are the cockamamie claims on which the belief system is based.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
At age 37, she became a case study in gullibility and greed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
In the aftermath of the infamous tech-stock bubble of 1999-2000, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNeely mocked the gullibility of stock-market investors who had chased stocks to ridiculous levels.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
Whatever the true reason for Fulcher’s departure, the alarming part should be Hegseth’s gullibility, inexperience and glaring ineptitude in both his hiring and ousting of Fulcher.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
