credulity

Preposition: of

• child: Here are some of the regulations that advertisers agree to: Advertisements should not exploit the inexperience or credulity of children.

Possessives

• reader: Donne does not make excessive demands on readers ' credulity regarding the origin of his spirituality, either.
• people: To suggest that X is anything other than a man would tax most reasonable peoples ' credulity, of course.

Converse of object

• stretch: This is stretching the credulity of most people to the absolute limit.
• strain: Such claims were obviously thought too gross for a domestic audience; they would strain the credulity of ordinary Bosnian Serb peasants.
• have: But I had more credulity in those days than I have got now.

Adjective modifier

• complete: But it is the mark of utter folly and complete credulity.
• boundless: Even Good's boundless credulity is strained on occasion, tho.
• sheer: In this instance it would seem to be sheer credulity.
• such: Given such prodigious credulity, can anyone doubt that human minds are ripe for malignant infection?
• stretched: He adds a remarkable appearance to a throng of 500 which even the gospel writers must have found stretched credulity too far.

Noun used with modifier

• strain: For most observers, the idea of US involvement in the attacks still strains credulity beyond breaking point.