credulously
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7.7
- adverb
- /krɪˈdʒuːləsli/
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credulamente
- Clearly, by credulously reporting this campaign nonsense far out of proportion to its absolute or relative value to citizens who care less about a candidate's star power or pre-fab list of "the dog ate my platform" excuses than about how this candidate will actually help or hinder their daily existence if elected, journalists are doing the public and the record a capital disservice.
- credulously reported
Examples
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Well, we might look back even even more credulously because what they, what we then hear is how do we pay for it?
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I don't accuse those who repeat the charge of lying about it, just of credulously believing without checking a factoid so useful.
Blog text (5) -
is when people credulously accept the theory as proven fact and begin screaming that something drastic must be done right.
Blog text (28) -
You know, a reporter is not credulously stating that destroying a cracker is some huge sacrilege.
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Worst were the people who credulously trusted their conscious 'friends' and performed the insinuated activities with patriotic zeal.
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The purported 'public interest' justifications so credulously reported by Justice Stone were patently bogus.
Academic text (2016) -
Its prominent placement was perhaps a dig at the authorities who had promoted the alert and other national papers that had been credulously publishing news stories on the legend since the leaked memo. El Universal, for example, had published about twenty pieces on the topic between October 22 and October 28 alone.
Academic text (2016) -
In reality, this is nothing more than a variation of the deceptive and downright "toxin" gambit, one that Dr. Gordon has credulously repeated in the past.
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Not only that, but she is a germ theory denialist, who has credulously also parroted the myth that Louis Pasteur "recanted" on his deathbed (same link).
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The scientist credulously accepted the new theory without rigorous testing.
Synonyms
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6.2
Without checking carefully whether something is true or fair
In a way that makes someone believe things too easily without checking
In a way that shows you accept something as true
Antonyms
How Credulous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Credulously comes from the Latin root cred- meaning 'to believe', the same root you see in everyday words like credit and credible. So to act credulously is to be too ready to 'believe' things without enough proof.