ingenuous
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Ingenuous General Vaugoin believed him, got him his railroad post.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ingenuous and yet very smart, The Little Accident is full of laughter that keeps its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Christmas, as in the past, Ogden Nash's words will still ring true: Sophisticated parents live agog in a world that to them is enchanted; Ingenuous children just naively take it for granted.
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Ingenuous minds are ever open to conviction; and it is the true characteristic of virtuous minds, where they cannot overcome or destroy, to lessen as much as possible the evils of human life.
From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick
Ingenuous confession! fruits of a life devoted in its struggles to important literature! and we murmur when genius is irritable, and erudition is morose!
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
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