ingenuous
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Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
They inquire, wide-eyed and ingenuous, why do we need to decide on these witnesses now, when we have all the time in the world?
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2020
“There’s always been people that do ‘home-brew’ — trying to find newer, ingenuous ways of generating radio waves.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019
Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther found the movie “surprisingly broad and ingenuous, in the manner of early silent comedies,” identifying Sordi as “a student of the Mack Sennett school.”
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019
Even in the happiest times he’d made fun of my California accent, my secondhand overcoat and my room barren of tasteful bibelots, but in such an ingenuous way I couldn’t possibly do anything but laugh.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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