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
“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 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
Perhaps," she admitted with sweet ingenuousness, "I have dressed too young.
From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John
