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ingenuous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | innocent |
| Derivation | ingenuousness |
his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
ingenuous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | artless |
| Derivation | ingenuousness |
an ingenuous admission of responsibility.
Examples of ingenuous
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By that wistful reckoning, the last such ingenuous summer came along about 1960.
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The innocent face is seamed now, although the eyes remain as ingenuous as ever.
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All the ingenuous star quality he parades in Benjamin Button, he sits on here.
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I think your guest, as ingenuous as she is, is making a tempest out of teapot.
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As for tapes that also incriminated Ehrlichman, he had ingenuous explanations.
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Inmates can be punished for having them but have found ingenuous ways to hide them.
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Restaurant critics for U.S. newspapers tend to be sycophantic or ingenuous or both.
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He is not an innocent and ingenuous man freed from all the constrictions of society.
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Sophisticated music never sounded so disarmingly ingenuous and simple.
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- Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
- Innocent: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
- (ingenuously) artlessly: in an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly"
- (ingenuousness) artlessness: the quality of innocent naivete
- (ingenuousness) openly straightforward or frank
- The ingu00E9nue /u02C8u0251u02D0nu0292u0259nuu02D0/ is a stock character in literature, film, and a role type in the theatre; generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome. Ingu00E9nue may also refer to a new young actress or one typecast in such roles. The term comes from the feminine form of the French adjective ingu00E9nu meaning "ingenuous" or innocent, virtuous, and candid...
- (adj) - artless; unsophisticated; frank, candid
- (adj.): simple; innocent
