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 the Dreamer, Lucas Steele has a sweet voice and Disney-prince ingenuousness with a self-referential wink.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
“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
An awed Kimmy, whose ingenuousness makes her a master of unconscious shade, responds, “Wow, they must love you at the frame store.”
From Slate ● May 19, 2017
But it failed even to attract that gentleman’s attention; and Granville, in the background, chuckled satanically over the ingenuousness of the device.
From A Bride from the Bush by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
