ingenuous
innocent and unsuspecting; frank and candid
Word origin: From Latin ingenuus, native or freeborn, hence frank.
Ingenuous in a sentence
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Her ingenuous remarks revealed she had no idea of the office politics around her.
Her ingenuous reply, free of any calculation, disarmed the interviewers who had expected evasion.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “ingenuous” well
Ingenuous describes frank, innocent candor without guile. Do not confuse it with ingenious, meaning clever, or with disingenuous, meaning insincere.
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