guilelessness

Example Sentences

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That cocktail of competitiveness and guilelessness makes Alcaraz hard to dislike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 8, 2025

He conveys an inherent sweetness, a sense of guilelessness and innocence that serves his portrayal as the protective oldest brother, and provides a contrast to his bulked-up physique.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

There is a rather astonishing guilelessness to his manner.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2023

Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Problem was, with Rishi and his utter guilelessness, she felt guilty for her ferocity, for subjecting him to an entire lifetime of pent-up rage that had little to do with him.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon