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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

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 Newby, Emma




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