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Recent Examples of gullible In an interview with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News in October, Kennedy suggested weight loss drugs were being pushed on to gullible Americans by foreign pharmaceutical companies that wouldn’t even market the drugs in their home countries. Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2025 There was a lot to unpack in that episode about Eli and Aimee-Leigh, who never actually believed that Y2K was a threat, just another opportunity to soak their gullible parishioners for money. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2025 Bad spelling and grammar ensured that most users deleted the message, leaving only the most gullible users in the pipeline. Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 As a gullible buyer starts to get nervous, the manager accidentally reveals that the salesman has been lying, torpedoing thousands of dollars in commission. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gullible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gullible
naive
Adjective
  • And if anyone was naive enough to imagine the U.S.-led tournament in 2026 would be free of such political baggage, then surely the increasingly public proximity of the Trump-Infantino relationship has dispelled those illusions.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Biography Ellmann-style was left looking hopelessly naive in its effort to understand the work by understanding its writer’s life.
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025

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