INGENUOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of ingenuous in English

(Definition of ingenuous from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of ingenuous

ingenuous
Yet they are also both rather ingenuous, if in different ways.
Those contracted were depicted as ingenuous and ignorant, constantly deceived by false promises.
One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious and ingenuous glosses on these three ideas.
He was no ingenuous literary man unschooled in political realities.
However, wishful thinking and imperceptive, but nonetheless ingenuous, hopes dominate what should have been meticulous scholarship.
The formation is rare and ingenuous and goes beyond the set rules of word-formation.
Most of us will smile indulgently at a first-time opera-goer's ingenuous conflation of character ('coughing her brains out') and voice ('keep singing').
Each singer adopts the same smile, the same ingenuous expression, the same carefully elevated chin.
Ingenuous one seen in centre of church.
Stiglitz (1974) was able to draw phase diagrams for a special depletable resource model with the help of some ingenuous variable transformations.
They explain in a most ingenuous way that whenever they got a case of typhoid from an inoculated person they regarded it with suspicion.
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This is why there is no future in ingenuous proposals for further talks with that régime as at present constituted.
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It seemed to me that that answer was wholly ingenuous.
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He made an ingenuous speech, the substantial effect of which is that it is impossible to devise a scheme to exempt small holdings at all.
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They use, too, a special jargon which is understood by the initiated but which it is hoped misleads the ingenuous foreigner.
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Translations of ingenuous

in Chinese (Traditional)
天真的, 胸無城府的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
天真的, 胸无城府的…
in Spanish
ingenuo…
in Portuguese
ingênuo…
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