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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gullible
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a group of gullible tourists
▪ He seemed to treat me as if I were a gullible schoolgirl.
▪ How can you be so gullible! He not really French.
▪ It's easy to blame the public for being gullible enough to buy dieting products, but it's the companies who sell them who should take responsibility.
▪ She was described by her neighbors as a sweet but gullible woman who allowed the man to live in her house as a source of extra money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible, so it's in character.
▪ Having won their votes from the gullible, as well as the dedicated, the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy.
▪ He felt gullible, patronized, bamboozled.
▪ He had never seen her like this before, gullible and giggly, at times even shy and blushing.
▪ He is resistant to change, gullible and easily led.
▪ It has a cult-like following with the potential to exploit gullible people and reinforce obsessional behaviour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gullible

Gullible \Gul"li*ble\, a. Easily gulled; that may be duped. -- Gul"li*bii`i*ty, n.
--Burke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gullible

1825, apparently a back-formation from gullibility. Gullable is attested from 1818.

Wiktionary
gullible

a. Easily deceived or duped; naïve, easily cheated or fooled.

WordNet
gullible

  1. adj. naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable, green]

  2. easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"

Usage examples of "gullible".

Mary Macgregor, thinking her to be gullible and bribable, and underrating her stupidity.

Had Eldrin been more gullible, he might have believed Corbal was showing compassion.

Onofre himself liked to tell the story when he had an audience of children and other gullible creatures who believed in werewolves, flibbertigibbets, and miracles.

Gullible marks were hard to find this time of year, making grifting almost impossible.

Sure, I do my little knightlike thing, restoring goodies to the people from whom they were improperly wrested, doing battle with the genuinely evil bastards who prey on the gullible, helpless, and innocent.

His ideas about women were being lambasted, and by Ham Brooks, who was notoriously gullible game for the fair sex.

Thus hoaxers and puffers could get away with conning gullible patrons out of large sums of money.

Cotton Mather had been gullible enough to dump into his chaotic Magnalia Christi Americana, and so poorly authenticated that even he had not ventured to name the locality where the horror occurred.

Jagan Grantforth had thoroughly bedazzled, and seduced, an unsuspecting, gullible Trilby Elliot of Port Rumor.

Hollywood, gullible Christers, and New Age loopy-doodles had combined to give them a trite, fairy-godfather image.

Various gullible fairgoers whose coin jingled in my purse would doubtless be eager enough to give him a description.

Jerome set up that romance, got his gullible brother and Roxy together so she could talk Garon into bringing her to the Leblanc house.

I suddenly saw them in Richmond, joking about how they were making fools of the gullible Yankee, Dana, and his simpleminded mick toady.

For a few sesterces a day they guarantee to turn the sons of impecunious but social-climbing Third or Fourth Classers into lawyers, who then solicit business tirelessly up and down the Forum, preying upon our gullible but litigious-minded populace.

My opinion has always been that the gaffers make up those silly, picturesque lyrics as a joke and laugh all winter about how they pulled the wool over the eyes of you poor, gullible researchers.