[ UK /kɹɛdjˈʊlɪti/ ]
[ US /kɹɪˈduɫəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. tendency to believe readily
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How To Use credulity In A Sentence

  • She has practised upon my credulity with huge success.
  • ‘They went crazy,’ he declares with utter incredulity.
  • At a minimum, they're guilty of extremely shoddy scholarship and overcredulity," says Boston Globe -- Ideas section
  • Unlike English, Arabic thematic fronting may express incredulity, disbelief, suspicion, uncertainty, denial, limitation and/or exclusiveness on the part of the subject or the object.
  • My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • The plot does stretch credulity.
  • Martin emitted a long, low whistle of incredulity, then proceeded to resurrect and read a carbon copy of "The Palmist. Chapter 29
  • A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. 
  • The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity.
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