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
Vince, played with a mostly winning ingenuousness by Ed Skrein, is trying to get his musical career back on track.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 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
It is hard, given Colbert’s history, to believe the ingenuousness of such disingenuousness.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2015
The result was, that anything like ingenuousness or frank statement was the object of general contempt.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
