The word 'gullibility' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the quality of being easily deceived, tricked, or cheated, particularly in a naive way. For example: "He was taken advantage of because of his gullibility."
The Rangers support stand accused of gullibility in not realising that their club was being so badly mismanaged, but even they are entitled to highlight how badly the subsequent situation – as the "old" club succumbed to liquidation – has been handled.
And he thrived in an era of cheap credit, when greed and gullibility became far more powerful than fear and suspicion.What marks Mr Madoff's case out, however, is the calibre of investor he suckered.
In 1957 he put an ad in the Times: "Practical joker with wide experience of British public's sad gullibility organises, leads and guarantees success of large-scale hoaxes".
Mr Kujau had made the paper look old by soaking it in tea.The gullibility of those taken in by the diaries may be excused, or at least explained, by the fact that Hitler was, and remains, the most intriguing monster of modern times.
But lean economic times also make get-rich-quick schemes more tempting, and desperation breeds gullibility.
The lamentable state of the government's preparations for withstanding the blackmail of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is the direct result of Mr Prescott's gullibility in believing the advice of officials, long-cowed by the FBU, that it would take many months to train soldiers how to use modern fire engines.
Ms Heimann, however, sees a story of Czech guile and Western gullibility.
When the priest proposes an annulment, she shrieks "Father, that's impossible we have children!" So Mrozek lays bare civilian gullibility, the church's impotence and the malleability of Poland's men.
Mr Trimble's defeat in the assembly elections had been sealed by the refusal of the IRA to decommission its weapons publicly and by Mr Paisley's contempt for his supposed gullibility.
An equally pressing question is why, despite her disillusionment with the increasingly repressive state, she chose to "stand by the flag .As she sifts through the tainted past, Wolf is horrified by her own "incurable" gullibility.
As she demonstrates, some early 20th-century ethnographers armed with cameras did in effect rob their subjects—of their pride and their values.Ms Warner is also illuminating on the apparent gullibility of some 19th-century scientists and rationalists, such as the members of the British and American societies for psychical research.
