artless
without guile or pretense; natural and sincere
Artless in a sentence
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The child's artless honesty disarmed even the sternest visitors.
Her artless account of the events, free of any attempt to flatter herself, persuaded the jury of her honesty.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “artless” well
Artless means free of guile or pretense, with a positive connotation of natural sincerity. Note the irony that it is nearly the opposite of artful, which means cunning.
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