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
His greatest hope for the future, Meghan is a high school senior at a horsy boarding school in the Washington area and possibly the most ingenuous girl since Alice in Wonderland.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022
Jennifer Johnson Cano’s mezzo-soprano was smoothly plangent as Emilia; the tenor Pene Pati was a sweetly ingenuous Cassio.
From New York Times • May 22, 2022
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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