Guileless

"Guileless" -- he being held exceptionally cunning.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

Guileless and un-self-conscious old-timers discuss life and culture in their town; a traffic cop parked in his patrol car divulges his technique for nabbing speeders; and a passionate turkey hunter recounts every unhurried step that led him to nab three prize gobblers.

John Farr: As Hollywood Churns Out Formulaic Re-Treads, American Documentaries Rise 2008

Guileless, Billy Ray nodded and told each of them, “You can just call me Bill.”

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Guileless, Billy Ray nodded and told each of them, “You can just call me Bill.”

Hullabaloo 2007

Guileless, ingenuous, innocuous, worriless childhood was where the imagined was tangible and personal.

Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

Guileless as he appeared, he turned out to be an agent of the German Government.

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me, —she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Paras. 500–599 1917

It must have been her legend: the people of Lisieux know nothing of it; but this Richard the Guileless took it for tradition, as she alleged it, and had no suspicion that she had spent the afternoon inventing it.

The Flirt 1912

It must have been her legend: the people of Lisieux know nothing of it; but this Richard the Guileless took it for tradition, as she alleged it, and had no suspicion that she had spent the afternoon inventing it.

The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

Guileless of cunning, he alighted and was devouring a second lump when -- clank -- the dust was flirted high and the Marsh Hawk was held by his toes, struggling vainly in the jaws of a powerful wolf-trap.

Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903