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ingenuously

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naively
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Mining the multitude of horror movie references that the show ingenuously employs?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.

From The New Yorker Apr. 23, 2015

Timberlake’s Berkey, unencumbered by neuroses about authenticity and craft and gazing ingenuously at the world around him, looks destined for mainstream success.

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2013

Many people ingenuously argue if you can’t find something online, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

From Forbes Jul. 12, 2011

I question whether the Hatred they bore to this new Viceroy was well grounded, for several People own’d to me ingenuously, that he did every thing in his Power to make them happy.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz




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