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guileless

[gahyl-lis] / ˈgaɪl lɪs /


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Guileless and fresh-faced, she exudes that most ineffable of qualities: Jesse has “It.”

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2016

Guileless, farouche, wholly uninhibited in her reading of Marston's choreography, she projects a reach-out-and-touch-me naturalness that compels both pity and wonder.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2013

Guileless and guiltless, it conveyed an Edenic sensuality: how lovely it must have been in the Garden, before the fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Your notion's lovely, winning, grand, The fiscal cat most bravely belling; Guileless NATHANIEL, too, affects World-hardened hearts—almost to weeping, Volunteer taxes who expects To draw from Mammon's harpy keeping.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 by Various




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