ingenuousness
Example Sentences
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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
“We are transported by the ingenuousness and the originality of the show,” he wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
“If you look at our shantytowns, there’s an ingenuousness in the way people make do with cardboard, with scraps of metal. There’s color to it. There’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
An awed Kimmy, whose ingenuousness makes her a master of unconscious shade, responds, “Wow, they must love you at the frame store.”
From Slate ● May 19, 2017
Mabel read— Lucy blushed when she came to the commendation of "her artless candour and ingenuousness."
From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Emma Newby
