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ingenuously

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

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2015

Timberlake’s Berkey, unencumbered by neuroses about authenticity and craft and gazing ingenuously at the world around him, looks destined for mainstream success.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2013

Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2012

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

From Forbes • Jul. 12, 2011

"To all of us," Horner ingenuously confessed, "it is only matter of temporary amusement and subordinate occupation."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various




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