ingenuously
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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
“I can see it’s true by the way you say that,” his friend ingenuously stated.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
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