How To Use Guileless In A Sentence
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There was an innocence about those days - something wanton yet guileless.
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In the Brown camp the great family of fugitives dwelt together in guileless and trusting brotherhood under the patriarchal care of Captain Brown, who daily praised the Eternal Sire, and one soul of harmony and love was infused into each individual dweller.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
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The apparently mild exterior and the guileless blue eyes mask a single-minded determination to carve out a successful career.
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Even Stalin, no guileless observer, believed in and, to regret , protected Mao.
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Host has the guileless of the farmer likewise, enthusiasm is hospitable.
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She is a pleasantly robust woman of modest means, patriotic in convictions, guileless in manner.
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It seemed like a heavy responsibility to place upon an innocent, guileless ukulele.
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‘God cannot abide sin,’ he explains guilelessly to Read.
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Frank is a guileless creature whose actions almost certainly result in some degree of catastrophe, but if he is working towards a purpose - either good or bad - it is beyond my abilities to discover what that purpose may be.
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It's a candid, troubled, guileless record that obviously throws its own maker for a loop.
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Miss Bailey turned to the so lately placid face of Sadie in search of the devastating "snoot," but met only a serene glance of conscious guilelessness and the assurance:
Little Citizens
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She has a frank and guileless style of writing, letting the incredible subject matter remain the focus, rather than any shabby poetic frills.
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Can someone give me a sentence for the word guileless?
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Then the satirical meaning hidden beneath Pere Fourchon's apparent guilelessness came back to him, and he owned himself "gulled" by the Burgundian beggar.
Sons of the Soil
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That the Third World was born guileless and innocent only to be brutalised by the West is a popular slogan in many parts of the world.
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She'd worn uncommon well; middle sixties and still shaped like a Turkish belly-dancer, with the same guileless idiot smile and wondrous blue eyes that had set me slavering when she was sixteen - she'd performed like a demented houri then, and who was to say she'd lost the taste in half a century?
Watershed
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Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir Launcelot.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Breathtaking in their simple beauty, guileless in their natural expressiveness, these early pieces have few of the bizarre exaggerations of character reflected in her subsequent work.
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She's a cunning manipulator one moment, an adorably guileless charmer the next, one who tosses off winsome smiles like strike-zone fastballs.
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Like Elwood, guilelessly funny in Kate and leopold. atiptoe
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The fact makes clear, the farmer is guileless, have understanding, also be most tell actual.
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This can lend the book a guileless tone that can frustrate.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet it is never slick or glib; instead, it exudes a guileless, homespun warmth.
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Indeed, he seems so sincere and guileless he could make ally unsuspecting bloke fall under his sweet spell.
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Jonathon was completely open and guileless, much to his own discomfort.
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He has a ruddy, open face - he laughs a lot - and an oddly guileless manner.
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Either way, the guilelessness that once had to be willed is now reflexive; and the self-styled literary reader laughs out loud at a farting dog.
A Bag of Tired Tricks
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His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.
Chameleon
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He works hard at depicting the guileless young Dantes with a headful of notions about honour and duty, and you can tell he's working hard.
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We tossed to the fish humbugs of wool, silk, and feathers, gauds such as captivate the greedy or the guileless.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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The prelate indicated that even his own guileless grandchildren may become despoilers of the planet unless today's adults act responsibly.
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Our Idiot Brother," about a preternaturally guileless hippie named Ned and his three weird sisters, has a title designed to tickle: Idiot brother?
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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In her eyes, Yemen was the poor and guileless cousin of the swaggering petro-monarchies of the Persian Gulf.
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It was the innocent, guileless laugh that normally only the young could make.
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Viewing the name Japheth in this case, it signifies a person of the kind which we call guileless, who believes readily, permitting himself to be easily persuaded of a matter, who does not dispute or cling to his own ideas but submits his mind to the Lord and rests upon his Word, remaining a learner, not desiring to be master over the words and works of God.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
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Dear and guileless infancy of art and of stage machinery!
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The country folk in the train spoke a language I was unfamiliar with, but their open, guileless speech and laughter was more beautiful to me than any hymn.
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Even Stalin, no guileless observer, believed in and, to his later regret, protected Mao.
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His tone was bland, his expression guileless; the look in his eyes would even pass for innocent.
The Perfect Lover
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Despite the edgier aspects of his personality, Anakin possesses a guileless charm.
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His smile was perfectly innocent and guileless.
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In his brief life M.R. was a successful family and businessman and the last time I saw him, he was still as friendly, open, and guileless as he'd been the morning I met his pigs.
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His first glimpse of her, on Class Day, in a white gown and a hat that to his manly indiscrimination looked as guileless as a sheaf of poppies nodding above the pale-yellow hair that had the sheen of corn-silk, had been a vision that stirred in him heroic promptings.
Judith of the Plains
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Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides.
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Nations have frequently tired of freedom and yielded themselves to tyrants, but not because of guileless trust in false professions.
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He is open and guileless; physically close to Jonathan, sexually attracted to Clare and yet oblivious to the damaging impact he might have on them.
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Driven by the desire to understand the gap between all the global attention to Darfur and the worsening conditions there -- and with no experience in filmmaking, or any connections in Africa -- the filmmakers 'guileless approach takes them deep into the refugee camps of Chad and Sudan.
Boing Boing
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Pharisees of academic music and so arride the guileless public.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Daphne was so guileless that Claire had no option but to believe her.
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I could not recall the guileless simplicity of childhood, its sweet unconsciousness and contentment, in the present joy.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
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It's easy to perceive the Super Furries as too ambitious for their own good, as they cavort guilelessly from West Coast rock to nosebleed techno, from mariachi to calypso.
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But on the guileless Lucien these coquetries were thrown away; he would have advanced of his own accord.
Two Poets
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The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world.
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Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
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And not merely in naturalness of manners, but also in moral elevation, in guileless sincerity, in delicate regard for the feelings even of enemies, in true devotion to the good of their fellow-men, especially to the cause of the poor and oppressed, and in earnest religious faith, were these men twin-brothers.
Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln.
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There lay, in the shape of an Antinous, no amoroso, no gallant, but a guileless philosopher.
Two on a Tower
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And Elizabeth is about the most innocent, guileless, angelic little girl you've ever met.
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Sometimes I dream of having a leader who has simple wisdom and the ordinary values of plain-speaking honesty and guileless good will.
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His thoughts were in turmoil and his open guileless face reflected the chaos in his mind.
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He is guileless, so sincere that he's practically transparent, and what you see is what you get - intelligence, decency, exasperation, bewilderment, and pain.
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It has great sincerity, and the script is very honest, guileless.
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Probably that you eat raw meat for breakfast and raw babies for dinner," Kethry replied, and Tarma could see the struggle to keep her expression guileless in the laughter sparkling in her eyes.
Oathbreaker
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Strong man, organ grinder, guileless giant, ever willing to be helpful.
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Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Yet it is never slick or glib; instead, it exudes a guileless, homespun warmth.
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It is evident, however, that the peculiarities of the latter, and his guileless simplicity, made him a butt for the broad waggery of some of his associates; while others more polished, though equally perfidious, are on the watch to give currency to his bulls and blunders.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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Cherubic and deceptively guileless, she used "humour as a dodge, intimacy as a smoke screen", Ms Salomon notes.
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He's at least five years younger than her and he has an ironic smile as elusive as hers is guileless.
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The piece mourned a guileless innocence Linke fears modern society has lost.
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Viewing the name Japheth in this case, it signifies a person of the kind which we call guileless, who believes readily, permitting himself to be easily persuaded of a matter, who does not dispute or cling to his own ideas but submits his mind to the Lord and rests upon his Word, remaining a learner, not desiring to be master over the words and works of God.
Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
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Or this, further, it may represent, in striking and inspiring way, -- that the pure in heart shall win the victories in life; that the guileless are the valiant sons of God; that the heart that resists evil passion and is touched by pity for the world's woe is the heart that reincarnates the passionate purity of the Christ and can reveal again the healing power, the Holy Grail of God.
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation