Example Sentences

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Lively’s ingenuously unnatural tone risks seeming dismissive, like an indifference to knowledge.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2015

Timberlake’s Berkey, unencumbered by neuroses about authenticity and craft and gazing ingenuously at the world around him, looks destined for mainstream success.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2013

Many people ingenuously argue if you can’t find something online, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

From Forbes • Jul. 12, 2011

Contacted about this, Diallo explained somewhat ingenuously that he had said sister "because in Africa people call each other brother and sister."

From Time • Jul. 1, 2011

He announced ingenuously that they had better try the flight-shooting while his father was away, because if they came back all right with several ducks he would probably not object to their going another time.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold