guileless
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The setup implies that Carrie—intellectually curious, a clandestine book reader, a guileless innocent for whom Ms. Howell makes us ache—is being liberated from Margaret’s fundamentalist penal colony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
They share guileless features and the courage to take creative risks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
As outspoken and sometimes guileless as she is, Madonna tends to choose her words carefully when the cameras are rolling.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
“A party plaintiff’s misguided belief or guileless action in relying on a statement on which no reasonable person would rely is not justifiable reliance,” according to Vondran Legal, which has offices in California and Arizona.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
In all this, his dreamer’s eyes were incongruous: gray and wide and guileless.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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