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How to use credulity in a sentence

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Celebrity endorsements of good causes are sometimes characterised by both ignorance and credulity.
Belief in plots and conspiracies was yet another sign of the credulity of the times.
Where earlier historians had read ancient authors with deference and credulity, he approached their works with presumptuous skepticism.
Nevertheless suspicion bred credulity, and society's reprobates could not be presumed unavailable for the purposes of prison plotters.
Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
You see, citizens had been pushed to such extremes of cynicism that this latest transparent assault on their credulity was enough to break them.
Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment.
This is an odd but very Washingtonian combination of cynicism and credulity.
It strains credulity to believe that these guys were doing this from any altruistic motive.
It would strain anyone's therapeutic credulity to believe that Audrey needed no further help.
All that said, the prosecution's version of events seems to stretch credulity.
Paternal credulity in Terence generally limits itself to mistaking undutiful sons for obedient and honest sons.
As students of urban folklore know, legends are perpetuated for reasons other than simple credulity.
The amazing credulity of the customers didn't just apply to the product itself, but to the company.
At one extreme, it is used to represent the unswerving conviction and absolute credulity of the true believer.
Questions of seeing, believing, and credulity are explored in all of the essays and projects in this issue.
But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity.
Those were dear good people but they must have carried simplicity and credulity to the limit.
We are required to decide on a measure which stretches our credulity to the limit.
One is amazed at the extent of the media's ignorance and credulity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On the other hand, youth is often gifted with a credulity divine and unerring.
His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed.
He could listen to words of trust and hopefulness, and yet not smile at her credulity.
It is not so much a test for lues in the patient as of credulity in the doctor.
Such figures, uncertified, would challenge the credulity of the uninitiated.
To avail himself in this manner of the credulity of his contemporaries, he passed over few occasions in his works of protesting against the futility of genethliac astrology.
But he was wise enough to pretend ignorance of their identity, and stared a well-acted credulity.
This credulity has a scientific basis, and has no relation to the old absurd belief in bimini.
I have affected perfect credulity in order to throw the Hickeys and countryfolk off their guard with me.
Was he thus suddenly to be entangled into a snare laid for his credulity by deceivers?
Silly credulity may take this as a proof how much evil a double-tongued man may often contrive.
Holtzkammer told me, and we jointly determined to sport with his credulity.
Up went my startled eyes as if at some trick of thaumaturgy, some imposition on my credulity.
The number of quacks and venders of nostrums is immense in every city who gain a livelihood by the credulity of the multitude.
The fellow had practised upon my credulity to obtain my likeness for publication.
It is a happiness which they who smile in scorn at their credulity can never enjoy.
The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker, was an outrage on the credulity of human nature.
An excellent maxim for fomenting credulity and nourishing superstition.
But there was one statement that proved too much for their credulity.
There really are no bounds to the credulity and ignorance of the average layman.
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