guileless

Example Sentences

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“Who’s the one in that thing about those rich ladies that kill that guy?” she asks guilelessly, a nod to “Big Little Lies,” one reference to which Comins compared the show during pitch meetings.

From New York Times

Spalding’s mellow, dancing bass plucks are a sound we know best from jazz, but are totally at home here, and her singing is guileless without being childlike.

From New York Times

Ms. Newton-John was widely considered one of the most guileless performers in the business and avoided responding to criticism in kind.

From Washington Post

Jones, a hirsute, craggy-faced, swaggering Texan who guilelessly played the antihero in some 60 films and dozens of television series, died on Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles.

From New York Times

What they saw was a young man of extraordinary natural gifts and a serene, guileless confidence.

From Washington Post