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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceivable
Adjective
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Pros: Flower buds are not susceptible to winter damage.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2025 -
Stock prices are susceptible to factors outside of the price of gold, like management decisions and broad market trends.—
Nathan Mahr,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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So be careful out there folks and don’t be gullible.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Until, of course, someone convinces a gullible public—or a U.S. senator—that all research currency, new and old, is created equal.—
Adam Marcus,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Today’s political speeches and television dramas don’t denigrate Ottoman leaders as unsophisticated conquerors but adulate them as pioneers of a new civilizational order—fair in governance and more compassionate toward their subjects than their Western contemporaries.—
Asli Aydintasbas,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2021
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Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity for practitioners of political violence is what doomed the Weimar Republic.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That happens sometimes – two people grow apart, and a quality that once was easy to overlook becomes an inflection point.—
Eric Thomas,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Mar. 2025
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None of this is easy to watch for audiences who love animals, even if these unicorns are dark and fairly menacing in their appearance — not to mention perfectly capable of defending themselves.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Neither was it based on wishful thinking or naive optimism.—
Matthew Scogin,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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As that incident indicated, Oded was not naive about Palestinian terrorism.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The older-younger generational divide emerges in an entirely different way in the latter episodes, with a growing riff between pragmatic (some would say selfish) Gen Xers and more idealistic and collectivist (some would say guileless) younger millennial and Gen Zers.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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Too much guileless positivity could lean a little Kimmy Schmidt, but Marcie’s innocence and genuine concern for every character grounds Sweeney’s dramedy from going full-tilt self-loathing.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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All that’s there is an artless effort to provoke outrage — Tony Hinchcliffe with the world’s strongest Boston accent.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2024
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The untenable toxicity of this artless warfare has led some researchers to rethink the ancient script—and flip it: know yourself, know your enemy.—
Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
15 July 2024
Adjective
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That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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What results from this corporate retrenchment is unknown, but the trends are clear, and the paths forward are strewn with mind fields for the unwary or unprepared business leader. Follow me on LinkedIn.—
Timothy J. McClimon,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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“Deceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceivable. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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