gullible
easily deceived because of being too trusting
Gullible in a sentence
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Gullible investors believed every promise and poured their savings into the obviously fraudulent scheme.
Investors gullible enough to believe the guaranteed returns lost everything to the scheme.
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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.
Using “gullible” well
Gullible means easily deceived because one is too trusting. It is close to credulous, with the same implication that the person believes things too readily for their own good.
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