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showing simplicity, honesty, or innocence and willing to trust others due to a lack of life experience
- Her ingenuous questions revealed how new she was to the industry.
- The young intern’s ingenuous enthusiasm was refreshing to the team.
- He was taken advantage of due to his ingenuous nature.
- She smiled at his ingenuous attempt to solve the problem on his own.
- His ingenuous belief in fairy tales persisted well into adulthood.
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lacking craft, guile, or subtlety
- His ingenuous remarks revealed more than he intended.
- The plan was ingenuous, missing obvious complications.
- She made an ingenuous attempt to negotiate.
- His ingenuous approach left him vulnerable to manipulation.
- The letter's ingenuous tone betrayed inexperience.
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