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guileless

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore G words

free from deceit or cunning; innocent and sincere

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Guileless in a sentence

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Her guileless honesty, with no hidden motive behind it, disarmed even her most suspicious colleagues.

Antonyms
cunningdeviouscrafty

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The naturalist warned that the alpine bloom was blank, a spectacle of color that would vanish within days of the thaw, leaving no trace by midsummer.

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Guileless (adjective) means free from deceit or cunning; innocent and sincere
Here is guileless used in an example sentence: "Her guileless honesty, with no hidden motive behind it, disarmed even her most suspicious colleagues."
Common synonyms for guileless include ingenuous, artless, candid, naive.
Antonyms of guileless include cunning, devious, crafty.
Guileless is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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