confiding
adjective
trustful; credulous or unsuspicious.
confidingness
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a word derived from
confiding.
Example Sentences
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The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
They sparkled with glad surprise when they beheld the master of the house, whom Frida immediately approached with frank confidingness.
From Partners A Novel. by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
"Oh yes, I should like to learn French," Newman went on, with democratic confidingness.
From The American by Henry James
"Perhaps I wanted a standard measure," Stella whispered, with a gesture of disarming confidingness.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
We did not discuss the merits of this hygeianic advice, but adopted it with absolute confidingness.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
