credulous
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In 1972, Joyce Carol Oates wrote a letter to the New York Times Book Review questioning a credulous review of Castaneda’s books.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
The three‑act farce tells the story of a credulous father whose obsession with astrology leads him to force his young daughter to marry an old wigmaker.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
The shift served as a reminder to anyone credulous enough to have been taken in by his performance that the leopard does not change its spots.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Psychologists know that people are credulous about the cognitive abilities of those who matter to them, overinterpreting simple responses as signs of cogitation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing credulous
Believe It or Not: Cred
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Grade 11, List 3
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