ingenuous
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Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
But he has previously signaled his support for the coach, and his other comments on Monday reflected an ingenuous acceptance of Clement’s fraudulent narrative.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2022
“There’s always been people that do ‘home-brew’ — trying to find newer, ingenuous ways of generating radio waves.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019
It’s more clean-cut in its sensibility, more earnestly ingenuous.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2018
We know from a contemporary source that Chardin painted the youth “carefully from life and...tried hard to give him an ingenuous air.”
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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