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
He has an overbite and big cheeks, which add an affable and perhaps misdirecting ingenuousness to his presence, in person and onstage.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
Despite the ingenuousness of her loyal nature, Joan could no longer doubt the ill will or jealousy of the captains.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
