"credulity" in the noun sense
1. credulity
tendency to believe readily
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tendency to believe readily
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credulity
Love is an affair of credulity. [ Ovid ]
Quick believers need broad shoulders [ George Herbert ]
Credulity thinks others short-sighted. [ Abb6 Guerguil ]
Your noblest natures are most credulous. [ Chapman ]
Credulity tells people we are short-sighted. [ Proverb ]
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire. [ La Fontaine ]
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. [ Landor ]
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. [ Terence ]
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. [ Tacitus ]
I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything. [ William Windham ]
Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]
Ignorant people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle. [ From the French ]
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]
We believe at once in evil; we only believe in good upon reflection. Is not this sad? [ Madame Deluzy ]
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. [ Tuckerman ]
We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]
credulityin Scrabble®
The word credulity is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
credulity:
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credulityin Words With Friends™
The word credulity is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
credulity:
crudely, cruelty, cutlery, diluter, ductile, ductily, tiredly
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