ingenuous
Example Sentences
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Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then.
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
All of this feels rather random, rather personal, rather ingenuous.
From New York Times
Even in the happiest times he’d made fun of my California accent, my secondhand overcoat and my room barren of tasteful bibelots, but in such an ingenuous way I couldn’t possibly do anything but laugh.
From Literature
Wide-eyed and ingenuous, the character is a blank slate.
From New York Times
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