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
As in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” earlier this season, the soprano Golda Schultz’s voice was silky and mellow as Anne Trulove, Tom’s put-upon girlfriend, and she managed to project innocence without ingenuousness.
From New York Times • May 31, 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
There was in the protracted scrutiny, in the queer glint in the indolent blue eyes, a hint of something very like suspicion, as though Mr Musgrave’s ingenuousness were being questioned.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills
