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
“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
The twitch of the mustache is the focal point of the Tramp’s social nervousness, as much as his flat, awkward feet are the focal point of his ingenuousness.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2016
Perhaps he thinks the ingenuousness of Aunt Sonora, the free-and-easy humor of Ike Turtle, the peevish jealousy of Mrs. Bird, are the fruit simply of what he terms "western vulgarity."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.
