innocently

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Still, when he departs from a text he shares part of his inner world, and seems sometimes almost innocently interested in what he’s saying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

He shows us another bone and holding it innocently beside his leg, he says: "This is a leg bone, like mine."

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Hyman then put the Oilers in front for the first time on a play that began innocently enough, with Nugent-Hopkins sending the puck off the boards on a faceoff deep in the Kings end.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

Most people, if they made this gesture innocently, would be upset about the neo-Nazis trying to claim common cause with them.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2025

He had a crazy desire to believe that there had been some mistake, that Floyd Lee had gotten them innocently, maybe buying them from the real thieves.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko