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ingenuous

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Netanyahu, and even some ingenuous pundits, are bragging about how Israel and America have never been closer.

During the ingenuous apologia pro vita sua Miss Anne regarded him with her honest candour.

This was the most perfect specimen of the bluff, hearty, breezy, almost ingenuous Westerner that Gwynne had encountered.

"I know you wouldn't wish me to affect an interest I do not feel," said Haggard with an ingenuous smile.

His replies were perfectly ingenuous, evincing nothing of the natural taciturnity and shyness of the Indian mind.

Her piety was not free from puerile pleasures; for everything, even religion, was poetry to her ingenuous heart.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ingenuous, such as: artless, candid, childlike, frank, green, and guileless.

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

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