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

Vince, played with a mostly winning ingenuousness by Ed Skrein, is trying to get his musical career back on track.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 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

The boy was silent for a minute, then, 'Se�or Maestro,' he asked with suspicious ingenuousness, 'can Americans live without eating?'

From Caybigan by Hopper, James