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UK
/ɡˈʌləbəl/
]
[ US /ˈɡəɫəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡəɫəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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easily tricked because of being too trusting
gullible tourists taken in by the shell game -
naive and easily deceived or tricked
at that early age she had been gullible and in love
How To Use gullible In A Sentence
- In fact, I was told that if you look up the word gullible in the dictionary you will find my picture. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
- It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
- It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
- We had all assumed the miniature stela was one of the fakes that are turned out by the hundreds to be sold to gullible tourists. LORD OF THE SILENT
- An article in Popular Mechanics suggests some historical absurdities which future authors may attempt to perpetrate on the gullible public. March 15th, 2009
- And why doesn't it use its noddle and insist on fewer and simpler pricing mechanisms rather than behave like the gullible teenager all the time?
- These people were not gullible. Christianity Today
- Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
- A veteran member of a company will order a gullible newcomer to find the key to the curtain.
- Does the word gullible appear in the AP stylebook? From the WSJ Opinion Archives
