ingenuousness

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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

“We are transported by the ingenuousness and the originality of the show,” he wrote.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 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 twitch of the mustache is the focal point of the Tramp’s social nervousness, as much as his flat, awkward feet are the focal point of his ingenuousness.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2016

There was an air of frankness about the weather-beaten little countenance, and a trustful look in the brown eyes that served far better than "character witnesses" to convince the jury of his ingenuousness.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny