guilelessly

Example Sentences

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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

James Cagney shed his tough-guy image and won his only Oscar as Irish-American song and dance man George M. Cohan in the guilelessly patriotic “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2017

But Isaac imbues it with disbelief and delight; we’ve already heard him confess guilelessly to his future wife that this had always been his ambition.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2015

Ernest, guilelessly playing host, sat Jack Neylan in front of a blackboard and attempted to explain the cyclotron principle to him.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik