ingenuously
Example Sentences
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Mining the multitude of horror movie references that the show ingenuously employs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn’t say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2015
Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
To preserve such a trade as this, as Lord Howe ingenuously confessed, from going into any other channel, was a grand object to the ministry.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
