ingenuously

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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

Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2012

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

From Forbes • Jul. 12, 2011

It would have been hard to find a better creature than Marie-Th�r�se, fresh and round, who leapt with joy the day following her marriage, and related ingenuously to Mme. de Motteville her little romance.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede