credulity 的定义
- willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.
credulity 近义词
等同于 naiveté
等同于 naïveté
等同于 faith
更多credulity例句
- The district explained to us that the records were found in an abandoned file cabinet, in an abandoned office, stretching credulity.
- It takes an awfully generous dose of credulity to think that this restriction is an unintended side effect of the proposed law.
- Her apologists say this all happened before she was running for office, but it stretches credulity to say that much changed over two years.
- That strains credulity — even if you accept that judges may not pay as close attention to politics as the people reading and writing this piece.
- While obviously not as cartoonish as the deluded leaders in The Office, du Pont seemed to stretch credulity at times.
- It strains credulity to imagine that these contracts would have moved forward without the fear of Michelle waiting in the wings.
- His detective novels contain none of the twists that strain credulity so often relied upon by thriller novelists.
- But he operates in a mode as old as American letters—aw-shucks credulity mixed with an observant intelligence.
- Given his clear commitment to the settlement enterprise, such openness to a two-state solution defies credulity.
- This is the true principle of the credulity of nations, and of the authority of those who pretend to guide them.
- Thus the advantage we might draw from all these motives for credulity, is found about the same in all sorts of religions.
- What a pity, that credulity should injure the cause of true religion!
- We find men of these characters in nations the most ignorant and savage, where they live by the ignorance and credulity of others.
- And, thanks to her simple credulity, he had succeeded even more easily than he could have hoped.