Vocabulary Word
Word: ingenuous
Definition: naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid
Definition: naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid
Sentences Containing 'ingenuous'
As Dantes spoke, Villefort gazed at his ingenuous and open countenance, and recollected the words of Renee, who, without knowing who the culprit was, had besought his indulgence for him.
That I have got ingenuous children, and that they were not born distorted, nor with any other natural deformity.
That I have such a wife, so obedient, so loving, so ingenuous.
Remember, that to change thy mind upon occasion, and to follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous, as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help.
He saw, I suppose, that I could not help smiling at the simplicity of this reply; and added, with a smile upon his own ingenuous face: 'Not, of course, but that my Sophy--pretty name, Copperfield, I always think?'
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