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comparative more gullible, superlative most gullible
Easily deceived or duped; naive, easily cheated or fooled. examples
plural gullibles
A gullible person; someone easily fooled or tricked. quotations examples
They pictured to these gullibles the unearthly delights that were to be enjoyed as servants of the Spaniards. But such tricks could not last, for Cuba was too close to Saint Domingue, and news of the real conditions leaked across the windward passage and were bruited about.
1991, Guy Endore, Babouk: Voices of Resistance, page 70
Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available. Skeptical treatments are much harder to find.
1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, page 5