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
It is hard, given Colbert’s history, to believe the ingenuousness of such disingenuousness.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2015
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.
