ingenuous

an ingenuous admission of responsibility.

an ingenuous beginner

Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse!

She is too ingenuous in believing what others say.

to be ingenuous in expressing feelings

an ingenuous approach to problem-solving

to appreciate her ingenuous honesty

his ingenuous belief in the goodness of people

to have an ingenuous outlook on life

an ingenuous reaction to the news

I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.

An ingenuous, transparent life was disclosed, as if the flow of her existence could be seen passing within her.

George Tesman is really an ingenuous creature, Mrs. Hedda.

A nice enough fellow, in an ingenuous sort of way.

He was, however, anticipated by the voice of the ingenuous and youthful Alice.

She was touched also by an ingenuous candour which gave a persuasive charm to his abruptness.

Not pretty, but fresh and ingenuous with a mixture of shyness and pertness that I found amusing.

Courtiers are not numerous when misfortunes are rife; but youth is gifted with ingenuous admiration and uncalculating fidelity.

Stephen the ingenuous boy, though now obliterated externally by Stephen the contriving man, returned to Knight's memory vividly that afternoon.

Stephen had now arrived at the point in his ingenuous narrative where he left the vicarage because of her father's manner.