ingenuously
Example Sentences
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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
Many people ingenuously argue if you can’t find something online, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
From Forbes • Jul. 12, 2011
Contacted about this, Diallo explained somewhat ingenuously that he had said sister "because in Africa people call each other brother and sister."
From Time • Jul. 1, 2011
"Charles knows well-nigh everyone here," remarked Mrs. Fleming ingenuously, and wondered why her cousin laughed.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette
