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
Still, inside the story he weaves, Burshteyn makes Romeo an absolute darling, with an ingenuousness that parents swoon over.
From New York Times • May 31, 2022
“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
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
Many were young men of ingenuousness and bright enthusiasm, prompt to condone lack of military knowledge by noble intrepidity in the field.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
