Example Sentences

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Instead of trying for coolness, “Blinded by the Light” is guilelessly geeky, virtually exploding in earnestness.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2019

James Cagney shed his tough-guy image and won his only Oscar as Irish-American song and dance man George M. Cohan in the guilelessly patriotic “Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2017

But then the movie swerves — guilelessly and effectively — into the realm of folklore and fable.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2017

There’s an earnestness to the form that’s nearly admirable; cross words are rarely spoken, and most disagreements are resolved with a sheepish, white-toothed grin, always flashed guilelessly.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2016

Ernest, guilelessly playing host, sat Jack Neylan in front of a blackboard and attempted to explain the cyclotron principle to him.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik