Crossword-Solution: CREDULOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Credulous | a. | Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting. |
| Credulous | a. | Believed too readily. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “CREDULOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| showing a lack of judgment or experience | 1 answer |
| Too ready to believe things | 1 answer |
| Ready to believe | 1 answer |
| Easily convinced. | 1 answer |
| Dewy-eyed | 2 answers |
| Born yesterday, so to speak | 3 answers |
| unquestioning | 16 answers |
| believing | 16 answers |
| unprejudiced | 29 answers |
| unsuspecting | 46 answers |
| guileless | 50 answers |
| Unpretentious | 50 answers |
| Unbiased | 53 answers |
| Untainted | 60 answers |
| Gullible | 61 answers |
| trusting | 62 answers |
| Straightforward | 63 answers |
| Harmless | 68 answers |
| Ingenuous | 72 answers |
| Naive | 75 answers |
| Unsophis-ticated | 77 answers |
| Upright | 80 answers |
| "Green __" | 165 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAMCEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CREDULOUS (5)
Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humor transcends cultural barriers.
Such object hath the power to soften and tame Severest temper, smooth the rugged’st brow, Enerve, and with voluptuous hope dissolve, Draw out with credulous desire, and lead At will the manliest, resolutest breast, As the magnetic hardest iron draws.
Jane Clayton was again confined to the prison hut she had formerly occupied, but as she realized that this was but a part of the deception which she and Frecoult were playing upon the credulous raiders, it was with quite a different sensation that she again entered the vile and filthy interior, from that which she had previously experienced, when hope was so far away.
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
Harrington (whose good faith no one could suspect), who affirmed that, being on board the _Castillan_, in 1857, he had seen this enormous serpent, which had never until that time frequented any other seas but those of the ancient “_Constitutionnel_.” Then burst forth the interminable controversy between the credulous and the incredulous in the societies of savants and the scientific journals.
Quotes with CREDULOUS (3)
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power …
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its) — Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world — a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious — surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of …
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–2021).