ingenuous, adj.
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
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artless ingenuous
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"an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
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lacking in sophistication or worldliness
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ingenuous innocent
sample sentences
"a child's innocent stare""his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
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