| 单词 | credulity |
| 释义 | credulity (krɪdjuːlɪti , US -duː- ) uncountable noun Credulity is a willingness to believe that something is real or true. [written] The plot does stretch credulity. Synonyms: gullibility, naïveté or naivety, blind faith, credulousness Collocations: strain credulity Fans are usually left disgruntled by a mismatch, and pay-per-view sales talk, but occasionally a night to strain credulity emerges from the canvas. Times, Sunday Times It may also strain credulity to believe in thirtysomething sprinters when they have neither come clean nor repented. Times, Sunday Times Dramatic representations of hiding in a swamp swarming with snakes, or for seven years in a crawl space of nine feet by seven feet by three feet, strain credulity. The Times Literary Supplement The characters are often said to be two-dimensional, the dialogue wooden, and the storytelling devices (such as excessive reliance on coincidence) strain credulity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It strains credulity to breaking point to think otherwise. Times, Sunday Times It would be stretching credulity to label their next game a six-pointer. Times, Sunday Times (2013) How far can people's credulity be stretched? Times, Sunday Times (2008) As a motive, that may stretch credulity. The Times Literary Supplement (2011) Isn't it stretching credulity to think that you would repeat the incident and get the exact same result? Times, Sunday Times (2008) |
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