English to English
ingenuous
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adjective (a)
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious(adj.all)Example:
An ingenuous admission of responsibility.
source: wordnet30 - Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.(adjective)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- lacking in sophistication or worldliness(adj.all)Example:
His ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
source: wordnet30
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