ingenuous
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Ella Stiller is their ingenuous aide-de-camp, Busy Philipps a flamboyant investor and Renée Elise Goldsberry as an opposing counsel who has history with Colter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
All of this feels rather random, rather personal, rather ingenuous.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
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
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