Synonyms for ingenuous:
adj. honest, trustful
Examples of uses:
His corpulence was a great help to play young ingenuous girls with generous curves.
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Next to those masters of deceit, the corrupt Helmut suddenly seemed like an ingenuous, defenceless boy.
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Come on, Dr. Gramm. It's ingenuous to pretend that our presentations are not arguments.
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Oh, and that ingenuous modesty can melt a girl's heart every time.
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It's ingenuous to pretend that our presentations are not arguments.
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Strategy some may call ingenuous, others merely off the point.
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I feel moved to sense your naked skin, your pure and ingenuous flesh
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It's ingenuous to pretend that our presentations are not arguments. We create a narrative of the crime and the criminal.
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During the ingenuous apologia pro vita sua Miss Anne regarded him with her honest candour.
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Title: The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol, author: William J. Locke, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26154/26154-h/26154-h.htm
This was the most perfect specimen of the bluff, hearty, breezy, almost ingenuous Westerner that Gwynne had encountered.
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Title: Ancestors, author: Gertrude Atherton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31858/31858-h/31858-h.htm
