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ingenuous
Naive and trusting.
Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
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"Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?" / "Of course not." / "On your word of honour?" / I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
Unable to mask one's feelings.
Straightforward, candid, open, frank.
💬 Quotations
[H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.