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ingenuously

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naively
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Mining the multitude of horror movie references that the show ingenuously employs?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn’t say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2018

Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.

From The New Yorker Apr. 23, 2015

Many people ingenuously argue if you can’t find something online, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

From Forbes Jul. 12, 2011

He adds ingenuously, "I am always able to see it."

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord




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