ingenuous
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He saw her just as she was--ingenuous, and ignorant if you like--except that she was pure.
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- adjective Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless.
- adjective Openly straightforward or frank; candid. See Synonyms at naive.
- adjective Obsolete Ingenious.
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- The men, ingenuous, lively young fellows from Saxony and Prussia, received me very kindly, and the variety of their different services and their readiness to talk about them, gave me a good insight into the inner relationship between the landed aristocracy and their retainers. — Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
- He was very fond of Nephew George; well recognizing the ingenuous, wise and loyal nature of the young man. — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- A humane ingenuous Princess; little negligences in toilet or the like, if such occur, even these set her off, so ingenuous are they. — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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He saw her just as she was--ingenuous, and ignorant if you like--except that she was pure.
— The Pretty Lady - The child Pansie, frisking with her kitten â” a more simple, ingenuous, and self-centred, but also less sympathetic nature than the Pearl of Hester Prynne â” may have been studied from Hawthorne's daughter Rose. — The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Latin ingenuus, honest, freeborn; see genə- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (ĭn-jĕnˈyo͞o-əs)/
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