ingenuousness
Example Sentences
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Perhaps my cynicism about Mr. Witkoff’s curious mix of ingenuousness and rapacity is unfair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
“If you look at our shantytowns, there’s an ingenuousness in the way people make do with cardboard, with scraps of metal. There’s color to it. There’s life.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
Late in the film, Mr. Anton, whose ingenuousness is at least partly a product of mental illness, digs in his heels about his domestic arrangement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015
The declamatory underlining, in word and image, give the extended setup the feel of nineteen-sixties television, instant camp without the ingenuousness.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2015
She was simple and gentle, and her exquisite ingenuousness caused her everywhere—in the mansion and the cottage—to be beloved.
From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various
