ingenuous

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Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Devieilhe, with a smooth tone like light cream, gave Constance’s prattling utterances an air of ingenuous wisdom, beautifully balancing Pérez’s tightly wound, self-conscious Blanche.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2023

“There’s always been people that do ‘home-brew’ — trying to find newer, ingenuous ways of generating radio waves.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019

It’s more clean-cut in its sensibility, more earnestly ingenuous.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2018

We know from a contemporary source that Chardin painted the youth “carefully from life and...tried hard to give him an ingenuous air.”

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson