ingenuous

Example Sentences

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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

It’s more clean-cut in its sensibility, more earnestly ingenuous.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2018

As phones use more premium materials and more ingenuous design to be more damage resistant, it’s not surprising that phone-makers are starting to up the price of these handsets.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2018

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