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
He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
But there is no evidence which shows that juries are gullible fools, easily led by a passing headline.
The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration. Archive 2008-06-01
at that early age she had been gullible and in love
The Irish were no better able than others to comprehend Ulysses, and only those gullible enough to answer the author's snobbish call for a lifetime's dedication to scholia could begin to penetrate the double darknesses of Finnegans Wake.
Plus, as even the most gullible among us is aware, garbage stinks—no matter how much you "mitigate" or "containerize" it. Wading Into a Waste Case
Apparently, to this day, a gullible section of society believes in the existence of these British rockers.
The hope is that a curious or gullible employee will insert the infected device into their computer. Times, Sunday Times
Your choice of associates is poor to say the least, and while you may be gullible, I'm just cynical. karle daine Army Rumour Service
Eventually, the very newspapers that misreported the story and collected equally gullible expressions of shock and outrage from academics and others reported the results of an Army investigation that came much closer to the facts.
I wonder, having spoofed us for two years, are they trying to send us gullible mugs the same signal?
Are they seriously suggesting the Scottish public are totally gullible and can be so easily hoodwinked?
In return for food, cats lease their services to gullible people. Times, Sunday Times
The gullible sucker actually plunks down money for an ‘outfit’ of software and seed emails.
It seems French women can be very gullible when it comes to mink versus fox fur, but you're English aren't you?
But it was enough to fool gullible TV producers. The Sun
We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
You then give reporters a ride into the jungle, providing what in the news business is called a dateline, which suggests an eyewitness account, and you encourage the gullible to disseminate only your version and its lies. Palestine Blogs aggregator
Sell both paintings to gullible collectors, while the art world looks the other way.
The public should not be passive and gullible on this matter but come out in support of the law.
How gullible we were to swallow his promise of a proper debate.
To have accomplished such a thing he didn't have to merely fool a gullible public.
Something not unlike strawberry jam glued to the inside of the spaceship would be all that was left of the gullible fool. Times, Sunday Times
It's February and we should be used to all this nonsense, but funnily the mainstream media seems more gullible than ever.
Benny Hinn, Peter Poppof (sp) and Pat Robertson live in mansions on the money taken from the gullible. Apoplectic Atheists « Anglican Samizdat
It is just another way to pinch money off gullible people. The Sun
Office stationery cupboards used to be crammed with reams of carbon paper sold to gullible secretaries by pushy salesmen during the lunch hour when the boss was out.
You do realize that the reason you are so gullible and easily brainwashed is that you are STUPID dont you? Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’
For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion.
Either he sought to deceive the gullible, or, as is more likely, was himself overcredulous. The Mistakes of Jesus
None the less, it is gullible to believe that Italians are invulnerable.
The word was eventually anglicanized to "gobby" which means someone who is gullible or foolish to come watch the washing the lions at the Tower of London. Archive 2009-03-01
He determines to ensnare an old schoolfellow, Heartfree, an innocent and gullible jeweller, who lives happily with his wife and children and his amiable apprentice Friendly.
The gullible masses have been conned into jumping on the bandwagon for fear of being accused of killing the planet. Times, Sunday Times
And why did neither of them realise that McMucus’s claim that he’s no good at "manoeuvring" - and him saying that he wants to be a teacher when he leaves parliament a “sweet” idea, according to the gullible Guardianette - is just yet another shameless bit of manoeuvring on Brown's part, obviously aimed at winning brownie points with teachers & the public in general? THE RISING TIDE....
He is utterly charmless and few people are gullible enough to believe him.
In hindsight I see it was a clever way for the teachers to essentially spend another twenty minutes in the staff room whilst some gullible overkeen sixth former did his job for him.
Something not unlike strawberry jam glued to the inside of the spaceship would be all that was left of the gullible fool. Times, Sunday Times
At 27 I was too breezy, too callow, and more gullible than I'd like to admit.
Even then, somebody was making a fast buck out of fleecing gullible patients. Times, Sunday Times
Most of Batuman's chapters describe some bizarre trek she gruelingly undertook (easily financed by gullible graduate funders), yet she confoundingly, incongruously speaks against this very form of research early in the book, thus, nothing or everything adding up in the end: The Possessed : Academics Going to the Trades
It has a cult-like following with the potential to exploit gullible people and reinforce obsessional behaviour.
For gullible people to accept lies on behalf of the British public is unacceptable. The Sun
The public saw this as a chance to join in the capitalist race for riches, but the scheme collapsed taking the savings of the gullible with it.
It seems people really are that gullible - so if you plan on selling to gullible, easily influenceable people, then perhaps this tactic is for you.
He has been called a loony, naive, gullible and a traitor.
The hope is that a curious or gullible employee will insert the infected device into their computer. Times, Sunday Times
Dude, I checked, gullible is totally in the dictionary Did you know the word “gullible” doesn’t appear in the dictionary?
But how gullible do you have to be to believe that all these cases coming together is just coincidence?
What, with the reflection of some gullible shikseh already burned in? Kalooki Nights
But it was enough to fool gullible TV producers. 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
It's all about retailing efficiency, they tell us, as though we are gullible rubes who don't know that computers mean fewer retail clerks, more technological glitches, and much consumer frustration.
It's as if they want to specifically cater to the prepubescent girls (the ones that are gullible and dripping with their parents' money) and write songs just for their palate.
They were the only ones who saw daylight unhampered by collar and chain, let out to gather even more gullible strays and errant pets into a pack to be corralled, sacked, and dumped into the kennel.
Hey AFP, did you know the word gullible doesn't appear in the French-English dictionary? On a Short Leach
Gullible hadn't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison.
There are those that believe that people who visit mediums are all gullible or plainly mistaken in their memories.
These sheets then had reproductions of his works printed on them and were sold to the gullible as ‘limited edition’ original prints.
A friend once made the preposterous claim that the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary. Strange Fruit
Andy Brown, the gullible foil and friend of Kingfish, and Amos Jones, a salt-of-the-earth cab driver.
Then it tried to buy its way out of it with a PR campaign, and we were foolish and gullible enough to accept that.
Often enough, unfortunately, such a defender of an expiring ideology, by proclaiming it to be nature's own law, succeeds in contaminating the more gullible of his opponents, who, unaware of their defeat, then begin to retaliate in kind. Archive 2007-03-01
Landlords are requesting ridiculous rent hikes and gullible tenants like you are helping them stuff their pockets with your hard-earned loot.
And for every hoaxer there are a thousand gullible people willing to believe.
Now either he is seriously delusional, or else he considers the electorate to be a bunch of gullible fools.
Finally, then, this is a show about how fluid identities become lumpenly concrete in the imaginations of the gullible. Times, Sunday Times
After all, there are so many gullible people who believe whatever they read!
If people weren't such gullible fools, these firms would be out of business. The Sun
Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, illiterate and ignorant millions.
They are also the insidious individuals who rampaged outside a dying man's home, and have taken advantage of a gullible collaborator regarding illegal billboards on his front lawn.
If only it could talk, it looks as if it could tell tales of cattle drives, cow towns, campfires, shootouts - and gullible gunwriters.
Of course not, well maybe to the point of engaging in kabuki theater to convince the gullible Democrats that Alito and Roberts were just umpires and not activists from the bench … Think Progress » Lieberman satisfied by prospect that Obama nominee could make Supreme Court ‘slightly less liberal.’
May 10th, 2008 2: 45 pm ET how freakin gullible does billary think americans are (except her hardcore cult followers who she'll lead to the gates of hell). she voted yes on the iraq war and now goin against it? what a idiot, shouldnt have voted yes in the first place Valerie Plame, husband appear in new Clinton ad
These products are sold on street corners, in garages and in spazas to an unwitting but gullible horde of patients.
Gullible by nature, they are easily swayed by catchy slogans and start seeking cathartic relief in communal frenzy.
The law was aimed at deterring unscrupulous boardinghouse touts who jumped aboard arriving ships to ply gullible sailors with cheap liquor and comely prostitutes.
Plastic replicas of the Greek pottery are sold to gullible tourists.
Voters are under no obligation to be so gullible.
He raised big money from the wealthy to buy fictional time-share flats, which were then sold to the gullible. SUMMER OF SECRETS
In these circumstances, and smarting as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsome pledges as a mask to deceive the gullible, and that I assumed that this scholarly amateur in politics was being used for their own purposes by masters and veterans in the old game of thimblerig. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
But that is to misunderstand its adherents: they are not gullible fools. Times, Sunday Times
I know a few people who are new age suckers, whom I consider gullible fools because they believe anything they are told.
He'd have to endure endless litanies about how naive and gullible he was to sign up for this trip.
It is just another way to pinch money off gullible people. The Sun
Most of these posts seem to relish in their own absurdity (I'm looking at you, TÖRdötCÖM), and the point of embarassing the gullible is missed, with instead the emphasis being placed on how well-crafted the hoax appears or the right timing of things (neither of which matter). What I really hate about April Fool's Day and the Internet
It is argued that the lobby is used to channel dis-information to a gullible public.
Anyone who fololows Rush or Beck is either delusionary, a shill, another dang mormon or someone gullible to take their bait. Rush ...Glen ....Sarah next?
Youlus, an Orthodox rabbi and sofer, or Torah scribe, told his well-intentioned but gullible marks, among other things, that he had found two such Torah scrolls buried in what he called a "Gestapo body bag" in a Ukrainian mass-grave of murdered Jews. Menachem Rosensaft: Demanding Accountability In The 'Holocaust Torah Scrolls' Scam
That is cynical, and I say to the Government that the public is not that gullible.
Something not unlike strawberry jam glued to the inside of the spaceship would be all that was left of the gullible fool. Times, Sunday Times
Presumably this scam is an attempt to tug at the heartstrings of gullible Christians. Christian lepers need MY help??!! « Skulls in the Stars
The government condemns in the strongest terms insinuations from the gullible and unpatriotic local press and South African media suggesting that Zambia is undertaking a unilateral iniative, ANC Daily News Briefing
I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is.
Yes, someone made it up solely for the purpose of trying to see how many gullible suckers they can con into forwarding it.
Beauty queens and film stars may be good crowd-pullers but people are no longer gullible to vote for them.
If people weren't such gullible fools, these firms would be out of business. The Sun
Many doctors continue to think that some individual patients are simply more susceptible to the placebo effect than others - more gullible, more neurotic or more acquiescent to authority.
Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, illiterate and ignorant millions.
I believe ‘Foucault's Pendulum’ is Mr Eco's way of poking fun at the overly gullible whilst also having a sideswipe at conspiracy theories and generally showing off his vast knowledge.
Laid by Hickman in a silk-lined coffin with a hidden breathing tube, Bliss enacts phony resurrections for the gullible public.
Clothing design should not be about creating pricey and snobbish brands to be foisted on a gullible public.
It is just a crude attempt to appease gullible members of the public. The Sun
Such outlandish and unsubstantiated claims should provoke skepticism in all but the most gullible.
There are any number of miracle cures on the market for people gullible enough to buy them.
Folks, this is a very old stunt, used by carnival hucksters for generations to convince gullible victims that ‘energies’ are being demonstrated.
Never mind, they say, it will be read avidly by our more gullible readers and boost the magazine's sales.
Does he think that only hapless and gullible proles sign up for the Marines?
For gullible people to accept lies on behalf of the British public is unacceptable. The Sun
Thus, in a 419 scam, other factors, such as psychopathology or extreme naïvete, likely explain the gullible behavior. Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams
The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.
Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public.
A deeply-conventional thriller that generates some unconventional laughs, Novocaine is an unpersuasive homage to the hardboiled archetypes of gullible men and the women who drive them to destruction.
These people were not gullible. Christianity Today
BUt now, with excellent PR and global communication, it can be used as another tool to reinforce the ongoing effort to keep the populace fucused on the central government for a "solution" and to quell the fear that was so skillfully in generated, and that we were so gullible in cranking up. Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
The advertisement is aimed at gullible young women worried about their weight.
We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
gullible tourists taken in by the shell game
In early casting breakdowns for the role, Shane is described as a gullible and enthusiastic baseball player. Jason Sudeikis Batters Up for Eastbound & Down
There is just no limit to the detritus that Palin will regurgitate and gift-wrap to sell to gullible sycophants, is there? Second Palin book due in November
Life is no bed of roses for the new dealer, least of all if female and of a gullible disposition.
Shady financiers had no difficulty in finding gullible customers.
Perhaps this explains Ford’s subsequent decision to decamp from the South in search of a more gullible electorate. Matthew Yglesias » Chait on Ford
‘Either we're not paying these diggers enough or we are bankrolling the most gullible army in the world.’
Similarly, her wits were sharp and her artfulness consummate, and for all that she was maddeningly gullible. "One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to."
Perception requires only that one exercise the will to perceive, and it's a tool as available to the doctrinaire, the ignorant, and the gullible as it is to the skeptical and concerned.
I know a few people who are new age suckers, whom I consider gullible fools because they believe anything they are told.
Projections made on the back of a good year in 2004 will raise unfulfillable expectations in gullible consumers.
They act like pushers selling cheap drugs to a gullible public with the financial sector as the intermediary.
He must have been pretty gullible to fall for that old trick.
But that is to misunderstand its adherents: they are not gullible fools. Times, Sunday Times
It's about them, the inert, gullible, credulous, infinitely seducible public; the anonymous masses who are so bored and boring they're the perfect subjects for mesmerism.
Later on it occurs to the otherwise gullible Jude that ‘it had been no vestal who chose that missile for opening her attack on him’.
It has a cult-like following with the potential to exploit gullible people and reinforce obsessional behaviour.
It preys on the ignorant, the illiterate, the gullible, and the meek.
Tony quickly becomes part of the travelling theatre, spruiking for gullible paying audiences to be ' transported to the world of their imagination '.
Then he turned to hoaxing the gullible, those who wanted to believe in ‘miracle cures’.
Besides, consumers have always been in an equilibrium with advertisers and hucksters - some gullible people will fall for anything, while others are impervious to all manipulation.
Plastic replicas of the Greek pottery are sold to gullible tourists.
I am not willing to indite the whole society, though I think Modern America's love affair with adolescence sends unfortunate signals to the more gullible among young males. Sara Whitman: Stoned and Drunk and Messing with Tigers
The star is a hapless jock who seems to have the word gullible stamped on his forehead. Blading On Thin Ice
The latter gent was demonstrably interested in this and related topics in a mature, amused, and fundamentally gullible sort of way. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
There are a couple of conclusions you can draw from this little kinderspiel; either Ms. Palin is incredibly stupid and incapable of understanding the basics of the proposals being put forth, or she thinks that people who read her stuff are gullible enough to believe her. Just Palin Crazy
He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
I saw bank tellers in cheap suits talking tripe to gullible secretaries.
In return for food, cats lease their services to gullible people. Times, Sunday Times
That's what comes from being gullible happy-clappies.
The investment of personal, political and moral identity that this represents is so immense that after a short while such gullible dupes are simply incapable of recognising reality even when it stares them in the face.
It is just a crude attempt to appease gullible members of the public. The Sun
The result is that amiable but gullible Arthur finds himself fleeced by friends and strangers alike.
He chastised what he termed gullible Western media for repeating the US envoys comments without seeking the government's side of the story. ANC Daily News Briefing
Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible.
Movie adaptations of comic books are always a let-down and trailers these days are front-loaded with all the best bits to lure gullible moviegoers to the multiplexes.

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