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credulously

/krej-uh-luhs/US // ˈkrɛdʒ ə ləs //UK // (ˈkrɛdjʊləs) //

坚信不疑地,坚信不疑,信任地,确信不疑地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
    • : marked by or arising from credulity: a credulous rumor.

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Examples

  • Now, intelligence officials and lawmakers are all but begging Americans to be less credulous with what they see and hear online amid new allegations that actors from Iran emailed individual voter-intimidation efforts.

  • But instead of fighting the trend, too many of us simply capitulate—lazy, credulous fools that we are.

  • It is bad enough when credulous but healthy people buy worthless cleanse kits and eat too much kale.

  • And another story today at the Jewish Press, under a credulous headline, admitted the story might not be right in its lede.

  • No major right-wing media figures ever speak out against the widespread practice of constantly bilking credulous old people.

  • The two stories “were a little bit credulous about who this guy they had on the phone was.”

  • They emanated from a credulous and superstitious people in an unscientific age and country.

  • Seriously, my dear Boulingrin, that there are moments when I wonder which of us two is the more credulous in respect of fairies.

  • Paterson buried his wife in that soil which, as he had assured his too credulous countrymen, exhaled health and vigour.

  • It was once the fashion to speak of Herodotus as a credulous man, who embodied the most improbable though interesting stories.

  • Others, more timid or less credulous, hesitated in believing those marvels.