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ingenuousness

NOUN
  1. openly straightforward or frank
  2. the quality of innocent naivete

How To Use ingenuousness In A Sentence

  • That is what we call disingenuousness little buddy. Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • The apparent disingenuousness is most evident in the fund’s ardent opposition to gay marriage. Constitutional Issues
  • When the baron's wife resurfaces in the text to greet the king who is de passage, she again drips with disingenuousness.
  • All the materials with which his memory is crowded become classified, orderly, harmonious, and undergo that compulsory idealization which is the result of a childlike perception, that is to say, of a perception that is keen, magical by force of ingenuousness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
  • In an alternative title chase, managers could receive points for witlessness, disingenuousness and babyishness It's tight at the top of The Plonkership
  • Edgar, who in this distress, read an ingenuousness of nature that counterpoised its romantic enthusiasm, felt for the young man, and taking Camilla
  • You must not think much of your argument if you think that this degree of disingenuousness is required to support it. Matthew Yglesias » Playoffs!
  • Oliver Stone, always the ne plus ultra of disingenuousness, is by Bugliosi’s reckoning guilty of a “cultural crime” committed through a thousand manipulations, among them the use of a smoke machine to generate a puff of rifle smoke from the Grassy Knoll that JFK presents as being visible to people in Dealey Plaza. A Knoll of One’s Own
  • Critics have railed against bouts of apparent disingenuousness, self-absorption and the singer's lupine cries of a last chapter.
  • Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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