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gullible

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gul·li·ble  (gl-bl)
adj.
Easily deceived or duped.

[From gull2.]

gulli·bili·ty n.
gulli·bly adv.

gullible
Adjective
easily tricked; too trusting
gullibility n
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Adj.1.gullible - naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
2.gullible - easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
unwary - not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell

gullible
adjective trusting, innocent, naive, unsuspecting, green, simple, silly, foolish, unsophisticated, credulous, born yesterday, wet behind the ears (informal) easily taken in, unsceptical, as green as grass << OPPOSITE suspicious
Translations
Spanish gullible [ˈgʌlɪbl] adjcrédulo
French gullible [ˈgʌlɪbl] adjcrédule
German gullible [ˈgʌlɪbl] adjleichtgläubig
Italian gullible [ˈgʌlɪbl] adjcredulo/a

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But still John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, stood deaf and unseeing, suffering the pangs of keen regret for the opportunity that he had wasted because he had been so gullible as to place credence in a single statement of the first lieutenant of his arch-enemy.
There might be treachery lurking beneath their fair appearance; but none who knew The Hawk would be so gullible as to hope to trap him thus.
He was rid of Jacob--he was bound for the Indies, where a gullible princess awaited him.
 
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