ingenuously
- a word derived from ingenuous.
Example Sentences
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Mining the multitude of horror movie references that the show ingenuously employs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn’t say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2015
Wright's ingenuously constructed script layers riveting dramatic storytelling, witty commentary and with unsettling moral and aesthetic inquiry.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
Why not depend upon me when we are among the Americans, and upon thee when with thy forces?” asked the maiden ingenuously.
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster
