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Перевод: credulous

[прилагательное]
доверчивый; легковерный

Тезаурус:

1. On the other hand, unless there is some evidence of the existence of God then positive arguments about the need to trust a Deity become negative arguments about credulous and uncritical behaviour.
2. common-sensical servant of a credulous scientific gentleman at Clifton.
3. The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state, reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism, and its spirit persisted: by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed, directly or indirectly, by the state.
4. In April, American GQ published a credulous profile of Morgan - "The Degradation and Miraculous Redemption of the Hoodlum Heir" - and an excerpt from his book, which it described as "a flamboyant crime novel that has New York publishing circles comparing him to Emile Zola, Ken Kesey and Nelson Algren".
5. His mind busied itself with images of what this news could do to his investigation if it ever became public; the newspaper headlines; the half-amused speculation of the cynics; the crowds of sightseers, the superstitious, the credulous, the genuine believers, thronging the church in search of what?
6. credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick's tale contributed to Master Humphrey's Clock , pompous and slow-witted, "one of those people who, being plunged into the Thames, would make no vain efforts to set it afire, but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity, and be highly respected in consequence by all good men".
7. It is significant that, in an age when belief in miracles, extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life, so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill; only, probably, the superstitious, the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic.
8. These phenomena are so elusive, so debatable, so exploitable by the credulous and those who thrive on manipulating them that they drive more away from genuine religious experience than they attract to it.
9. It is easy to sneer at the credulous pilgrims.
10. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament."
11. In such a situation, I suggest, faith becomes blind, belief becomes credulous and trust becomes misplaced.
12. People who have no religious faith find this baffling, but it would be wrong to dismiss the mystics as deluded and credulous.
13. Now some have - and foreign investors, less credulous anyway, are more needed than they used to be.