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“We did struggle a bit but that was our own doing. We were dominating and gave the ball away ingenuously,” Italy coach Roberto Mancini said of the play that led to Pukki’s penalty.

All Israelis, so the argument goes, are implicated in the travesty, which the United States has ingenuously nursed along because of a growing Israel lobby that cynically exploits the memory and legacy of the Holocaust.

Then, Trump apologists ingenuously ask, “What about Obama? Wasn’t he Deporter-in-Chief?”

Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn’t say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.

Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.