Gullibility
313. Gullibility (See also Dupery.)
- Big Claus foolishly falls for Little Claus’s falsified get-rich-quick schemes. [Dan. Lit.: Andersen’s Fairy Tales ]
- Emperor orders a new outfit from weavers who claim it will be invisible to anyone unworthy of his position. [Dan. Lit.: Andersen “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in Andersen’s Fairy Tales ]
- Georgette Mary Richards’ coworker and Ted Baxter’s wife; epitomizes gullibility. [TV: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in Terrace, II, 70]
- Oswald believes Edmund’s false charges against Edgar. [Br. Lit.: King Lear ]
- Othello “thinks men honest that but seem to be so.” [Br. Lit.: Othello ]
- Peachum, Polly among others, believes she is Macheath’s wife. [Br. Opera: The Beggar’s Opera ]
- Quixote, Don completely taken in by all the tales and plans of his squire and others who humor his delusions. [Span. Lit.: Cervantes Don Quixote ]
- Simple Simon credulous booby. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 387]
- Tenderfoot told that cowpunching is a cinch, is badly hurt when he tries it and is tossed. [Am. Balladry: “The Tenderfoot”]
- Urfe, Nicholas trusts in the specious sincerity of the actors in Conchis’s psychological experiments on him. [Br. Lit.: John Fowles The Magus in Weiss, 279]
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