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How to pronounce gullible in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fleeceable, green
Derivation gullibility


at that early age she had been gullible and in love.
Type Words
Derivation gullibility


gullible tourists taken in by the shell game.

Examples of gullible

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He is a predator and the young ones are a bit more gullible and easier to catch.
From the express.co.uk
Are only thursday night comedy readers gullible enough to fall for it each week?
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
It is a highly effective manner of determining if someone is a gullible buffoon.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fortunately, most voters are not as gullible as he and many politicians believe.
From the freep.com
The city is quick to put taxes on a ballot, figuring the taxpayers are gullible.
From the dailynews.com
If Americans believe that story, they are the most gullible people in the world.
From the infowars.com
If Flew in his dotage was a bit gullible, Varghese had a gullibility of his own.
From the nytimes.com
Why would one not intervene when somebody gives gullible people sewage to drink?
From the newscientist.com
It is really embarrasing how ignorant and gullible a large portion of the US is.
From the nation.time.com
More examples
  • Fleeceable: naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
  • Easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
  • (gullibility) credulousness: tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
  • (gullibility) The quality of readily believing information, truthful or otherwise, usually to an absurd extent
  • (gullibly) In a gullible way or manner
  • Once upon a time, way back in October of 2005, there was a Halloween theme. Someone (Don and Gwen, for those keeping track) said how much they loved the ghost moving across the bottom of the page. ...
  • "Capable of being gulled or duped; easily cheated, befooled" (OED). Incapable of rational argument due to generally unhoned critical thinking skills. ...