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

It is hard, given Colbert’s history, to believe the ingenuousness of such disingenuousness.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2015

Late in the film, Mr. Anton, whose ingenuousness is at least partly a product of mental illness, digs in his heels about his domestic arrangement.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

Either he was a very slippery individual, or else ingenuousness itself.

From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman