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

His greatest hope for the future, Meghan is a high school senior at a horsy boarding school in the Washington area and possibly the most ingenuous girl since Alice in Wonderland.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022

Jennifer Johnson Cano’s mezzo-soprano was smoothly plangent as Emilia; the tenor Pene Pati was a sweetly ingenuous Cassio.

From New York Times • May 22, 2022

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

We know from a contemporary source that Chardin painted the youth “carefully from life and...tried hard to give him an ingenuous air.”

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson