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guileless

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Casting the bubbly, adorable Feldstein opposite the prosthetically monstrosified Paulson and Owen is like casting a guileless little bunny as the final girl in a creature feature.

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A professional writer’s prose is never guileless or innocent.

I was guileless, eager to take risks, a catamaran racing breakneck through every channel I encountered.

In a town populated by guileless, soft-hearted idealists, Terry is refreshingly complex—ruthless in advancing his own material interests but also sincerely committed to righting the historical wrongs perpetrated against his people.

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Ada is guileless and candid with a natural storytelling manner that’s immediately engaging.

At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

She is, in the words of former Reagan operative Jeffrey Lord, “a guileless, fevered Marxist.”

It puts you in touch with your guileless goals and essential desires.

And then, as in this 1972 letter to James Ivory, he is touchingly vulnerable and guileless.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

In spite of her sharpened wits, Mrs. Kaye smiled radiantly into Isabel's guileless eyes.

He was thirty but looked little over twenty, and his large limpid blue eyes were as guileless as a child's.

The guileless Connie saw a pink mass in the dim shadows opposite her.

The leopards came and sat near the houses as guileless as children; the boars snorted and ran into the rice fields to hide.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to guileless, such as: unsophisticated, aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, and genuine.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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