ingenuous
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Ingenuous and yet very smart, The Little Accident is full of laughter that keeps its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Christmas, as in the past, Ogden Nash's words will still ring true: Sophisticated parents live agog in a world that to them is enchanted; Ingenuous children just naively take it for granted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ingenuous General Vaugoin believed him, got him his railroad post.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ingenuous, trustful, and inexperienced, she listened to the charmer with a yielding and delighted ear, and was happy as long as she perceived nothing but sincerity and love.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Ingenuous as a babe, and made strong by love.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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