Definitions
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- adjective Too credulous.
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- adjective Too
credulous .
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- adjective too credulous for your own good
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which Rossiglione perceiving, hee stoode like a body without a soule, confounded with the killing of so deare a friend, losse of a chaste and honourable wife, and all through his owne overcredulous conceit.
The Decameron 2004
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Either he sought to deceive the gullible, or, as is more likely, was himself overcredulous.
The Mistakes of Jesus William Floyd
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Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous
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I do but just mention it here to show you that the Court was jealous of me, when I never thought myself capable of giving them the least occasion, which made me reflect that a man is oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous.
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Contradictory circumstances he had noted intruded, uninvited, to challenge overcredulous conclusions concerning her.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2 [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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I do but just mention it here to show you that the Court was jealous of me, when I never thought myself capable of giving them the least occasion, which made me reflect that a man is oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Volume 2 [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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I do but just mention it here to show you that the Court was jealous of me, when I never thought myself capable of giving them the least occasion, which made me reflect that a man is oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Complete [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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Oftener deceived by distrusting than by being overcredulous
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz — Complete [Historic court memoirs] Jean Fran��ois Paul de Gondi de Retz 1646
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Serveral hundred overcredulous tech journalists, Warren Ellis, assorted furries, trannies, and S&M enthusiasts and him off of Boing Boing.
How Now Brownpau 2009
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