guileless
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“A party plaintiff’s misguided belief or guileless action in relying on a statement on which no reasonable person would rely is not justifiable reliance,” according to Vondran Legal, which has offices in California and Arizona.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026
Yet here comes Maye, the guileless face behind the most maddening revival in sports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
You may remember those matches from “Forrest Gump,” but Tom Hanks’ guileless sweetheart would never use the sport to smuggle gold bars out of Hong Kong, as the real Reisman once did.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
The whole idea of a tourist attraction built as a guileless ode to love, and shrine to a Slovak poem, may strike you, at first blush, as defying both rhyme and reason.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
All of them had a guileless look about them, but complication and something more lurked behind Pilate’s and Hagar’s faces.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing guileless
The Kite Runner
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The Jungle
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