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gullibility

/guhl-uh-buhl/US // ˈgʌl ə bəl //UK // (ˈɡʌləbəl) //

忽悠,轻信,忽悠人,轻信他人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : easily deceived or cheated.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininnocence

Examples

  • Not surprisingly, given the gullibility of Apple devotees like myself, Apple's profit margins are the envy of Silicon Valley.

  • I also asked the man who wrote the book on gullibility—literally.

  • A psychologist and authority on gullibility lost $400,000 of his retirement nest egg to none other than Bernard Madoff.

  • As such, it would be, in any case, a large tax upon the gullibility of readers outside the back streets of Paris.

  • John Bull, thy gullibility has, for above half a century, been more than proverbial!

  • Accordingly, we rose and left the field to those whose greater gullibility rendered them more plastic objects for working upon.

  • Providence never designed him to be above two-and-twenty, by his thoughtlessness and gullibility.

  • She raised her eyes furtively toward the adversary, an appraising glance, as if to judge his gullibility.