Vocabulary Word
Word: gullible
Definition: easily deceived
Definition: easily deceived
Sentences Containing 'gullible'
Jones wasn't as gullible on the field, however.
Grandiose claims were made for what could be humble materials indeed: for example, in the mid-19th century Revalenta Arabica was advertised as having extraordinary restorative virtues as an empirical diet for invalids; despite its impressive name and many glowing testimonials it was in truth only ordinary lentil flour, sold to the gullible at many times the true cost.
Even where no fraud was intended, quack remedies often contained no effective ingredients whatsoever.
Cartman, as the robot, comes up with over two thousand terrible, nonsensical film concepts (800 of which star Adam Sandler), whilst the movie producers are gullible enough to buy them as brilliant.
Other new characters in this revamped version were Sidney Livingstone as Bert Daley, Arthur's gullible, over-trusting brother (and Ray's father), who views Arthur as a successful businessman and not a con-man and entrusts Ray into his care; Bert's wife and Ray's mum, Doreen (Lill Roughley); and Ray's recurring girlfriend Gloria (Emma Cunningham), who is frustrated with Ray being torn between her and Arthur's lackey.
The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Screen Gems' most popular characters.
An "Oothoon", according to Canaan, is the kind of woman who can cast off middle class propriety and give into her own sexuality, but Bonnie Hobbs recognizes this kind of talk as seduction for the gullible and unwary.
In the late sixties his campaigning on behalf of the Dublin Housing Action Committee, due to its association with republicans and left wing activists, led him to being accused of being a communist. He was dismissed in the Dail by the then Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, as "a gullible cleric".
He also rails against the dominant social paradigm, the Expansionist view, and the belief that technology will solve all our problems: “Confusing life expectancy with life-span, the gullible begin to believe that medical science has accomplished a miracle—lengthened human life!”(306)
"Desert Solitaire" and wilderness.