guilelessly

Example Sentences

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“Emily in Paris” leans hard, at every turn, on the most obvious tropes of the rom-com canon, but like Emily, it does it so guilelessly that what should be grating becomes almost charming.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

She does this by guilelessly emulating the images around her, as though she fails to perceive their strangeness, as though they were the most natural thing in the world.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Instead of trying for coolness, “Blinded by the Light” is guilelessly geeky, virtually exploding in earnestness.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2019

Stories set to music, which Benjamin had generated so guilelessly as a child, were derided as facile, hidebound, and decadently nostalgic.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Love had never been declared to her so guilelessly, so unreservedly.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini