Sentence example with the word 'ingenuousness'

ingenuousness

Definition n. the quality of innocent naivete

Last update: July 4, 2015


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As a statesman, he certainly committed grave faults - through excess of diplomatic subtlety, lack of forethought, and sometimes even through ingenuousness; but it must with justice be admitted that, in spite of his reputation for pugnacity and obstinacy, he never failed, either by temperament or on principle, to exhaust every peaceful expedient in settling questions.   [Please select]

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Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, whiteness, candor, radiance.   [Please select]

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Ingenuousness has taken refuge there.   [Please select]

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And her ingenuousness in writing you a full account of it is a proof.   [Please select]

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"Better come along for a little spin," he said, readjusting the tie with man-like ingenuousness.   [Please select]

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"Because, my boy, there is a self-consciousness about all forced things, and the hallmark of the Bohemian is an absolute ingenuousness."   [Please select]

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All that was required of him was just to maintain an ordinary air of ingenuousness.   [Please select]

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His ingenuousness of confession astonished everybody, and moved the hearts of his judges.   [Please select]

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She caught her breath before laughing tolerantly, and then looked into his eyes with a tantalising ingenuousness.   [Please select]

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The ingenuousness of youth had insisted on this prolongation of our meeting.   [Please select]

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And then, when we talked--well, I did," he said with a kind of naked ingenuousness, as if no one could have been more surprised about it all than he."   [Please select]

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