Then it tried to buy its way out of it with a PR campaign, and we were foolish and gullible enough to accept that. |
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After all, there are so many gullible people who believe whatever they read! |
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Clothing design should not be about creating pricey and snobbish brands to be foisted on a gullible public. |
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Beauty queens and film stars may be good crowd-pullers but people are no longer gullible to vote for them. |
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It's February and we should be used to all this nonsense, but funnily the mainstream media seems more gullible than ever. |
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They act like pushers selling cheap drugs to a gullible public with the financial sector as the intermediary. |
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Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
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That is cynical, and I say to the Government that the public is not that gullible. |
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But there is no evidence which shows that juries are gullible fools, easily led by a passing headline. |
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Are they seriously suggesting the Scottish public are totally gullible and can be so easily hoodwinked? |
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The public should not be passive and gullible on this matter but come out in support of the law. |
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And for every hoaxer there are a thousand gullible people willing to believe. |
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To have accomplished such a thing he didn't have to merely fool a gullible public. |
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He'd have to endure endless litanies about how naive and gullible he was to sign up for this trip. |
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Both efforts seem like cunning attempts to fob off used goods on a gullible reading public. |
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But how gullible do you have to be to believe that all these cases coming together is just coincidence? |
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There are those that believe that people who visit mediums are all gullible or plainly mistaken in their memories. |
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Apparently, to this day, a gullible section of society believes in the existence of these British rockers. |
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Sell both paintings to gullible collectors, while the art world looks the other way. |
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Does he think that only hapless and gullible proles sign up for the Marines? |
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Laid by Hickman in a silk-lined coffin with a hidden breathing tube, Bliss enacts phony resurrections for the gullible public. |
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The public saw this as a chance to join in the capitalist race for riches, but the scheme collapsed taking the savings of the gullible with it. |
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There must be thousands of gullible theatre-going buffoons who'd happily shell out for a piece of souvenir art. |
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Projections made on the back of a good year in 2004 will raise unfulfillable expectations in gullible consumers. |
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Such outlandish and unsubstantiated claims should provoke skepticism in all but the most gullible. |
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A veteran member of a company will order a gullible newcomer to find the key to the curtain. |
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I wonder, having spoofed us for two years, are they trying to send us gullible mugs the same signal? |
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At 27 I was too breezy, too callow, and more gullible than I'd like to admit. |
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Such a defence is offered only to hoodwink the gullible, illiterate and ignorant millions. |
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Now either he is seriously delusional, or else he considers the electorate to be a bunch of gullible fools. |
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Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible. |
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The result is that amiable but gullible Arthur finds himself fleeced by friends and strangers alike. |
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Landlords are requesting ridiculous rent hikes and gullible tenants like you are helping them stuff their pockets with your hard-earned loot. |
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God is the creation of a few powerful people to keep the gullible masses under their thumb. |
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I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is. |
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It seems French women can be very gullible when it comes to mink versus fox fur, but you're English aren't you? |
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It is a huge misconception that experiencers are gullible, fantasy prone, space cadets. |
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And why doesn't it use its noddle and insist on fewer and simpler pricing mechanisms rather than behave like the gullible teenager all the time? |
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These products are sold on street corners, in garages and in spazas to an unwitting but gullible horde of patients. |
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Yes, someone made it up solely for the purpose of trying to see how many gullible suckers they can con into forwarding it. |
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I know a few people who are new age suckers, whom I consider gullible fools because they believe anything they are told. |
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I think that they were guilty merely of trying to put one over on a man who was acting as a gullible fool. |
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Never mind, they say, it will be read avidly by our more gullible readers and boost the magazine's sales. |
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It's a classic, the sort of conspiracy theory which has fooled gullible people through the ages. |
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Fraudsters rationalize that there are no real victims because their targets are avaricious, complicit and gullible. |
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The poor gullible suckers who bite this diabolical fishhook always bitterly repent afterward. |
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We are not so gullible as to believe that newspapers are always unbiased and always report all the facts. |
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It preys on the ignorant, the illiterate, the gullible, and the meek. |
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On the site where once the truth, the whole truth and more or less the truth was relayed to a gullible nation, there will soon be a hotel, inspiringly titled The Scotsman. |
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How gullible we were to swallow his promise of a proper debate. |
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For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion. |
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But the third and potentially worst problem of all is that Dorothea is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and we divers appear to be exceedingly gullible! |
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He is utterly charmless and few people are gullible enough to believe him. |
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Some of it was just general-purpose paranoia, designed to trick money out of the pockets of the fearful and gullible. |
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Let the international community not be gullible about the political machinations of the opposition in Zimbabwe. |
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In effect, the industry was selling dangerous patent medicine to gullible consumers. |
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The law was aimed at deterring unscrupulous boardinghouse touts who jumped aboard arriving ships to ply gullible sailors with cheap liquor and comely prostitutes. |
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Movie adaptations of comic books are always a let-down and trailers these days are front-loaded with all the best bits to lure gullible moviegoers to the multiplexes. |
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She cynically manipulated her gullible enthusiasts, knowing all the while that she never intended to run. |
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The cause for diseases is manifold and not as simple as a gullible practitioner thinks. |
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Children are cheap, more gullible, and easier to condition into fearless killing and unthinking obedience than adults are. |
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Imagine, by contrast, a Gingrich who spent the 1990s fulfilling that vow made to the young and gullible Tomasky. |
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However, they have not internalized many rules, are gullible, and their judgment is not always sound. |
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If retailers are gullible enough to take goods back, they think, then more fool them. |
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And when that happens, people-all people, you don't have to be gullible or vulnerable. |
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Phishing attacks work because gullible customers of banks and financial institutions are tricked into releasing their passwords to third parties. |
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As we watch, we more normal and sensible people assure ourselves that we would never be as gullible as that. |
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Those who are saying it are aiming at gullible journalists or at the Eurosceptic press, hoping to get a story making us look silly or ridiculous. |
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Without being gullible, we can be optimistic, and then perhaps we can have a debate. |
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I saw bank tellers in cheap suits talking tripe to gullible secretaries. |
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Naive, idealistic and terminally gullible, Hawke is putty in his hands. |
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None the less, it is gullible to believe that Italians are invulnerable. |
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He determines to ensnare an old schoolfellow, Heartfree, an innocent and gullible jeweller, who lives happily with his wife and children and his amiable apprentice Friendly. |
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Under these circumstances a leader who is trusted can make a claim on well-disposed followers whose acquiescence, although intuitive, is not simply gullible. |
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Office stationery cupboards used to be crammed with reams of carbon paper sold to gullible secretaries by pushy salesmen during the lunch hour when the boss was out. |
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Being a thief is banal but writing about it is magnificent and with this exhibitionist act of tedious subversion, I have recreated myself once more as gullible, European radicals reclaim me for their own. |
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I am so surprised that my friend from Calgary who is an intelligent man is so gullible to be sucked into this belief that George Bush is right on this one. |
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I think anyone who would is either gullible or misdirected. |
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We are not so naive and gullible as to fall for it. |
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They are too quick to teach to gather gullible public around them. |
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Sometimes seen as gullible and perhaps too trusting because he accepts people and things as they are, Kreativer Unterstützender Berater doesn't look for or expect the malicious motive. |
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Its history lessons should concentrate on why a newly-unified and gullible Italy fell for a megalomaniacal, paternalist goon like Mussolini. |
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The more gullible underworld scum whisper that Bowdaar is an immortal creature who can't be killed, but those who have faced him and lived to tell know he is simply the best there is. |
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Because he was an eminent classicist and, it must be admitted, a pretty good public speaker, many gullible people were taken in. |
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What he failed to realise was that the British public are very gullible, and if you keep telling them something for long enough, there's a chance they'll believe it. |
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Even the most gullible hunter cannot picture a toy or even a miniature poodle tangling with an outraged, crippled Canada goose. |
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Though he was aware of the stratagems mountebanks used to hoodwink the gullible, Crookes was unable to retain a healthy scepticism and indeed became infatuated with Florence Cook, a teenage medium. |
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It isn't only the high-level drivel being inflicted on a gullible public, even more perniciously it even extends to the language itself. |
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For most of the noughties, the majority of British politicians, economists and voters were just as gullible as that viewing couple: we accepted as real and glorious what was patently fake and plastic. |
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It's down to the once-great Kain, and a few gullible humans, to take on the Sarafan. |
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He is seemingly gullible, but he is exceed-ingly subtle in his prayer. |
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I don't think you parliamentarians should be so gullible as to believe that they need 25,000 different ways of making money and they don't need any responsibilities in exchange. |
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I WAS amazed to read in the Chronicle about all the gullible women buying up all the stocks of anti-ageing vanishing cream. |
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They're going to lay down tracks and have helpers push gullible gawpers along, amid the debris and detritus that inevitably accumulates in such forgotten places. |
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