guileless

Example Sentences

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“Who’s the one in that thing about those rich ladies that kill that guy?” she asks guilelessly, a nod to “Big Little Lies,” one reference to which Comins compared the show during pitch meetings.

From New York Times

Spalding’s mellow, dancing bass plucks are a sound we know best from jazz, but are totally at home here, and her singing is guileless without being childlike.

From New York Times

And she sings in a wiry, reedy voice that’s by no means as guileless as it sounds; there’s always an intellectual superstructure.

From New York Times

She rebuffs his advances, but there’s still something about this guileless hustler that intrigues her, and they become friends, business partners and eventually something more.

From New York Times

I think what infuriated them most was her guileless lack of apology.

From Salon