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also gullable
as in naive
readily taken advantage of
wished that his brother weren't so gullible as to believe he could win the fixed carnival game if he kept playing it
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Recent Examples of gullible
But this young man has shown me how others see me now: old, gullible, vulnerable.
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Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
But what these gullible pundits don’t understand is that Trump’s negotiating style is to start with a high figure to extract the maximum leverage.
—Brian Foley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
In an interview with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News in October, Kennedy suggested weight loss drugs were being pushed on to gullible Americans by foreign pharmaceutical companies that wouldn’t even market the drugs in their home countries.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024
He's lost two sets of parents and has to keep his useless adoptive brother alive and journey to Mele, a mystical place that is believed to be a paradise that many think is just a fairytale told to gullible lion cubs.
—Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
But what these gullible pundits don’t understand is that Trump’s negotiating style is to start with a high figure to extract the maximum leverage.
—Brian Foley, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
In an interview with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News in October, Kennedy suggested weight loss drugs were being pushed on to gullible Americans by foreign pharmaceutical companies that wouldn’t even market the drugs in their home countries.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024
He's lost two sets of parents and has to keep his useless adoptive brother alive and journey to Mele, a mystical place that is believed to be a paradise that many think is just a fairytale told to gullible lion cubs.
—Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Gullible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullible. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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