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Перевод: gullible
[прилагательное] доверчивый; легковерный
Тезаурус:
- Old myths are, however, replaced by new as the combination of modern technology and advanced marketing techniques produce ever more elaborate and sophisticated examples of political image-building around minor personality cults, even in western democracies, aimed at obfuscating reality among the ignorant and gullible.
- A steady stream of mad priests, gullible clerks and city gadabouts supply the prey for this story of entrapment.
- Foreign Office worthies look forward to a parallel rise through the ranks of the Order of St Michael and St George, from CMG (Call Me God), to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to GCMG (God Calls Me God), on the theory that gullible foreigners will be more impressed by the ambassador of a second-division power if he's called Sir Cuthbert Smith instead of plain Mr Smith.
- The result is an inflation rate double that of the other large OECD economies, and interest rates that have to be kept higher than they otherwise would be - because moneymen, on the whole, are not the most trusting (read gullible) of types.
- All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged, take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes, make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans, and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual.
- But, with dealers looking gullible, word spread that Hanson's 2.8 p.c. stake in ICI was being placed.
- What the film demonstrates above all is the power of television to deceive the uninformed and the gullible.
- Cross-examined, luckless psychiatrists found themselves cast as gullible fools tricked by Sutcliffe.
- Clever publicity, orchestrated confusion over the equipment involved and a gullible pop industry have conspired to create a wave of enthusiasm in some parts of the press and the music industry.
- Cantril argued that on the whole, the less educated were the most gullible.
- Could they all be inventions, disinformation planted on gullible amateur spy-writers by the KGB?
- Gullible child of the age that I am, I assumed that someone, some where, had invented a machine that accepted complete walnuts at one end and dispensed perfect halves (and shells) at the other.
- These were mostly aimed at gullible Christians.
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