(a.) Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.
(a.) Believed too readily.
Example Sentences:
(1) When President Obama stands up and says - as he did when he addressed the nation in February 2011 about Libya - that "the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people", it should trigger nothing but a scornful fit of laughter, not credulous support (by the way, not that anyone much cares any more, but here's what is happening after the Grand Success of the Libya Intervention: "Tribal and historical loyalties still run deep in Libya, which is struggling to maintain central government control in a country where armed militia wield real power and meaningful systems of law and justice are lacking after the crumbling of Gaddafi's eccentric personal rule").
(2) With much of the work supposed to be completed by December, it is stretching credulity to believe that much more than token consultations with patient groups can take place.
(3) This leads to the paradoxical result that some of our most famous and successful journalists are also the profession's most credulous sycophants.
(4) When 11,000 jobs and a lot of pensions are at risk over the collapse of the ailing store group from which he extracted £586 m, let’s not waste any more time on King Phil (I’ve informally stripped him of his knighthood), his hurt feelings or embarrassingly vulgar yachts, except to say that – yet again – that Tony Blair was a credulous sucker for a rich man with tax-shy habits.
(5) It doesn't exactly stretch credulity, however, to recognize that banks provide bonuses to the best producers – whether they produce derivatives, mortgages or foreclosures.
(6) Given the inertia on even the most modest legislative response to the mass murder of schoolchildren, those still credulous enough to believe that our governance is representative of popular will are either Barnum-sized suckers, or worse, tacit participants in tragedies soon to come.
(7) Credulous voters will agree and feel placated, but in actuality, such measures will make little if any difference.
(8) The Crown Prosecution Service should not be so credulous in future.” But the CPS expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the trial.
(9) I think he’s a dangerous manchild with an army of credulous misogynists at his disposal.
(10) Pretending that the government's current forecasts and plans are certain and reliable, when the ones made only three years ago turned out to be anything but, stretches credulity.
(11) What we see is not meritocracy at work at all, but a wealth grab by a nepotistic executive class that sets its own salaries, tests credulity with its ridiculous demands, and discovers that credulity is an amenable customer.
(12) The boy insists he is not among the stone-throwers, an assertion that stretches credulity.
(13) It strains credulity to accept that a secretary of state who handles all her communications on a home-brewed server never passed classified information,” Fiorina said.
(14) Hague's campaign included parading Kaminski before the Jewish Chronicle and the more credulous blogger Iain Dale at the party conference: Dale's interview is reprinted across five pages in Total Politics , of which Lord Ashcroft owns 25%.
(15) The pirate's credulity regarding the US authorities' bogus ransom negotiations may make for a happy ending, but it's also the moment when America's superpower seems almost tragically all-consuming.
(16) Kiev's police chief later claimed that he ordered the assault, but that strains credulity.
(17) That suggestion, which always appeared unsatisfactory, now stretches the bounds of credulity.
(18) Equally credulous were those who, on the Monday evening, circulated reports that rioters had broken into London Zoo – thanks largely to a single, poorly-lit picture of what appears to be a tiger on a stairwell , with the irresistible subject line: "Oh my god – reports of tigers roaming around Primrose Hill."
(19) But the manipulation does not just tell us how sly operators view the credulous masses, but how they see themselves.
(20) Ghosts are not phantoms floating on the periphery of village life, the concern only of children and the credulous.
Incredulous
Definition:
(a.) Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving.
(a.) Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity.
(a.) Incredible; not easy to be believed.
Example Sentences:
(1) No,” Bale says, laughing and looking almost incredulous.
(2) The fact that something very similar happened last year at Wimbledon only fractionally lessens the incredulity at another surprise result.
(3) Three years ago, I would have watched these news reports with incredulity.
(4) When the White House sent a private message to Tehran last week about its so-called "red lines" in the Strait of Hormuz, the reaction was both puzzled and incredulous.
(5) Penetrating questions – probably repeated until he gets an answer – quickfire debate and incredulous facial expressions are likely to be the order of the day.
(6) Several delegates were incredulous at claims by the banks that they were ramping up lending to small businesses.
(7) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian For women, such as Sophie, 29, working in the Republic of Ireland but originally from France, the experience is a logistical headache which makes her incredulous about Ireland’s attitude towards women’s rights.
(8) This year at least some of the people who think going to the police is a tidy solution may have learned that the police can be incredulous, unresponsive, abusive, or ineffective.
(9) - now our stock response to anything met with the slightest incredulity."
(10) He did Bright Young Things (2003), directed by Stephen Fry; he played President Paul von Hindenburg in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003); he was an incredulous Priam in Troy (2004) and Casanova as an old man in the 2005 mini-series starring David Tennant.
(11) When I misunderstand a remark about Andrew Mitchell and ask if he felt sorry for the ex-chief whip for losing his job, I get a look of incredulity.
(12) The faces here, in contrast to those at the window of remembrance, are jubilant, incredulous.
(13) Some will betray flickers of relief or ecstatic incredulity; other faces drop.
(14) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
(15) A few days after an incredulous judge threw out the case against Colin Stagg in 1994, I saw the police descend into denial.
(16) Remember that two school shooters, Dustin Pierce and Michael Carneal, expressed incredulity at what they had done only moments later.
(17) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
(18) You think we did this ourselves?” one asked incredulously, pointing at a line of bullet holes.
(19) one asked incredulously, pointing at a line of bullet holes.
(20) Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, said she remained incredulous that no one in the SNP knew about the case before now.