How to Use credulous in a Sentence

credulous

adjective
  • Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense.
  • Once the tap shoes come out, even the most credulous viewer has to catch on.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Some of your friends at your newspaper have been a bit credulous.
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • In that sense, not all the blame can be placed on the most credulous members of the public.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The more credulous members of the media too often bought that act.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
  • But no one outside of the most credulous corners of the media are buying it.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Like so many kid brothers, Andy is so curious and credulous that he can’t be left alone.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • If mystery novels appeal to the credulous child in me, true crime stories speak to my inner voyeur.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 1 June 2017
  • Go back over the book again, giving it a sympathetic but not credulous reading.
    — Walter Frick, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But equally deserving of scorn are all the credulous rich and powerful old men who bought into this house of cards.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2018
  • Many fans are getting off on having the permission to be openly credulous about his star power.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Does the claim sound too breathless, too credulous, too hyperbolic?
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • While Noah plays the credulous fool who's convinced by the ad, Williams proceeds to tear it—and Cruz—apart.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2016
  • Many in the online pundit class balked at his article, casting it as anecdotal and credulous.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • My problem here was being too credulous of polls of hypothetical events.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Now, the inhabitants are a credulous, inbred bunch, prone to mottled skin, patches of white hair and walking in their sleep.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Invited into the home of a credulous couple, the impostor announces his plan to make a film starring their adult son.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • Xi also toes the Davos line on climate change, to the delight of credulous Westerners.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 July 2017
  • The credulous Times falling into the right-wing’s projection.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The young men Mangum accused will never get back what her unfounded accusations and a credulous media landscape took from them.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Few people are as credulous as Lear or have children as exploitative as Goneril and Regan.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The key point from the securities board is to use extra caution with these assets, since bad folks have a pattern of taking advantage of the credulous investors.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Guy seems pretty credulous here, especially after Doris tells him, finally, about the fate of poor Soledad.
    — Lily Osler, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • And the Parks, or at least their fussy, fluttery young matriarch, Yeon-keo (Yeo-jeong Jo), are a very credulous people.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Nothing about the man, his music preeminently, flattered the worldview of the credulous teenager.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
  • That’s how Weir and Niccol reward the stupidity of credulous viewers.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The judge in Riley’s case, a former prosecutor named John McBain, was more credulous.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The tweet is a typical Yangism — tone deaf, credulous, but broadly appealing to people who don’t want to do any critical thinking about a subject.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
  • At one startling point, the survivor even dresses up as the deceased, with a fake bullet hole in his temple, in order to console his credulous mother, who worries that the ghost of her son may not find peace.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Infantino described the event as a momentous sign of progress, while activists described it as a stunt, no more than an exercise designed to fool a credulous foreign dignitary.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 July 2019

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