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- adverb In a
gullible way or manner.
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Examples
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Ms. Maran gullibly embraced all the gothic charges that occupied that hysterical time: Satanic rituals at day-care centers, multiple personalities caused by long-forgotten traumas, the claim that one in three girls was a victim of sexual abuse.
Memoir Kay Hymowitz 2010
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So the republicans tell them look out the sky is falling and they gullibly believe it and the trashing begins anew.
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John, intent on seeing the good in everyone, gullibly doesn't perceive that his friend, the sponging Harold Skimpole, is a feckless, amoral aesthete.
Novel Approaches To Kindness Linda Grant 2011
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And I say this as someone who read Germs, her book on bio weapons, and (gullibly) believed every word of it, but then found out it was all a fraud after the IraqWar.
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With the internet at your fingertips, wouldn't it be easier to check the veracity of his claims, instead of just gullibly repeating them?
First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat 2009
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The concept: A young boy is desperate to get freckles, and gullibly ingests a classmate's concoction in the hopes of a breakout.
Judy Blume's 'Tiger Eyes' heads to the big screen, prompting the question: Which of her other books should become a movie? Jen Chaney 2010
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The core driving force - Islamic Jihad - is simply not grasped; whilst that movement's tactical excuse-blame 'nasty Israeli Jews' is gullibly swallowed.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Well consider the Ohio voter who this year was gullibly led to approve a piece of legislation which would probably give Big CAFO owners a huge say re how animals are raised.
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US policy-makers excel at making promises, breaking them, then ushering in a barrage of propaganda willfully and gullibly swallowed hook, line and sinker by the ra-ra fla - waving Semper Fi crowd.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Obama's "No, We Won't" Moment in Iraq 2010
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US policy-makers excel at making promises, breaking them, then ushering in a barrage of propaganda willfully and gullibly swallowed hook, line and sinker by the ra-ra fla - waving Semper Fi crowd.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Obama's "No, We Won't" Moment in Iraq 2010
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