(n.) A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.
(n.) To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unsaturated species of PtdEtn have a tendency to destabilize membrane bilayers [Cullis, P. R. & de Kruijff, B.
(2) 2H NMR techniques have recently been developed to determine the complete orientational order profile of lipid bilayers employing lipids containing perdeuteriated palmitic acid [Lafleur, M., Fine, B., Sternin, E., Cullis, P.R., & Bloom, M. (1989) Biophys.
(3) Tactfully, his captain, Stanley Cullis, responded that having passed he should move into the middle.
(4) Transmembrane pH gradients have previously been shown to induce an asymmetric transmembrane distribution of simple lipids that exhibit weak acid or basic characteristics (Hope, M.J. and Cullis, P.R.
(5) A lipid-complexed formulation of AmB (AmB-LC) has been reported (A. S. Janoff, L. T. Boni, M. C. Popescu, S. R. Minchey, P. R. Cullis, T. D. Madden, T. Taraschi, S. M. Gruner, E. Shyamsunder, M. W. Tate, R. Mendelsohn, and D. Bonner, Proc.
(6) A similar mechanism has been demonstrated to apply to simple lipids that exhibit weak acid or base characteristics [Hope, M. J., & Cullis, P. R. (1987) J. Biol.
(7) What we see is a page from the playbook we know.” Tyler Cullis, legal fellow at the National Iranian American Council, said: “Trump has imposed targeted sanctions aimed at low-level individuals and entities alleged to be involved with Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
(8) Sequences upstream from the previously identified [Cully, D.F.
(9) Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that large unilamellar vesicles can be efficiently produced by extrusion of multilamellar vesicles through polycarbonate filters with a pore size of 100 nm (Hope, M.J., Bally, M.B., Webb, G. and Cullis, P.R.
(10) These results are discussed in terms of a recent model for membrane fusion (Cullis, P.R.
(11) Three different hybrid plasmids that contain the 740-bp fragment, pAG101 [Cully and Garro, J. Virol.
(12) Upstream of at least some telomere-linked genes for the variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) of African trypanosomes are expression site associated genes (ESAGs) whose transcription is co-ordinated with the transcription of the adjacent VSG gene [Cully et al.
Gullible
Definition:
(a.) Easily gulled; that may be duped.
Example Sentences:
(1) These private providers take more than a fifth of fees in profit and spend even more on marketing to cover up the poor quality of what they are offering – subprime degrees not worth the paper they are printed on being sold to very young, very gullible consumers .
(2) As a consequence, he's the go-to guy for a scathing quote on dissembling theologies and their gullible believers.
(3) Bailey hits back, telling Russell that he is displaying "a degree of gullibility" that is "not consistent with your role".
(4) Generally, the victim never reports that they have been a victim of fraud to the police because they are too ashamed of their own gullibility.
(5) It's in this "gap" that W1A 's comedy is located, but it's also where many real-life professionals ply their trade, bamboozling the gullible and the desperate with their bewitching neologisms, barmy suggestions and bizarre leadership tests.
(6) Remember you're human after all While much of the above are technical solutions to prevent you being hacked and scammed, hacking done well is really the skill of tricking human beings, not computers, by preying on their gullibility, taking advantage of our trust, greed or altruistic impulses.
(7) And what was this intended to prove (other than, perhaps, some nebulous point about the media’s gullibility )?
(8) I'm not advocating dumb gullibility, but it is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being apparently cool, trendy, design-fixated and so on, are the ones who are actually so damned cool and so damned sensitive to stylistic nuance that they can't bear to celebrate or recognise obvious class, beauty and desire.
(9) • Russell was also accused of "a degree of gullibility" , after saying he still believed the investment banks advising the government had given good advice.
(10) Internally, however, they are frightened, timid, self-doubting, gullible, inconsiderate, vulnerable to erotomania, and cognitively unable to grasp the totality of actual events.
(11) You can’t blame Puerto Rican politicians for thinking that they can keep their constituents in the dark: Puerto Rico’s political history is all about assuming that we Puerto Ricans are gullible and foolish.
(12) There appears to be an unlimited supply of gullible celebrities willing to deal with the Sunday newspaper's undercover reporter: earlier this month he caught the snooker player John Higgins allegedly offering to throw matches for money.
(13) I hope Cameron is not going to be as gullible to swallow bland assurances by [president) Dmitry Medvedev and [prime minister] Vladimir Putin or be so eager to please that he fails to raise the important human rights abuses in relation to Magnitsky and [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky."
(14) "I was joking," he says, rolling his eyes at my gullibility.
(15) Granted, the new Newsweek is hoping to pass itself off as the old and real Newsweek, but, really, that is less its fault than the fault of the gullible.
(16) As for Bissinger, he is now beating his chest about his own pathetic gullibility, in a way that curiously seems to mirror the grand mea culpa that Armstrong will perform on Oprah.
(17) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
(18) There is evidence that Philip Hammond, the least gullible of defence secretaries, is starting to cleanse the Augean stables of defence spending.
(19) They were so wrapped up in their righteousness that they did not notice that the state was thanking them for their gullibility and seizing the chance to lock down and shut up.
(20) It turns out that the joke is enough to support not just a movie but an entire industry, because tired parents are everywhere now, and they've never been more anxious… or gullible.