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

And in flashbacks to their childhood in Mumbai, they shared a knack for mischievously, yet ingenuously, testing the patience of their parents.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2014

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

From Forbes • Jul. 12, 2011

Contacted about this, Diallo explained somewhat ingenuously that he had said sister "because in Africa people call each other brother and sister."

From Time • Jul. 1, 2011

He is always on the move, light-headed, gluttonous, gay, pliable, credulous, ingenuously na�ve and silly.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo