Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being guileless; freedom from deceit or dishonesty.
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- noun The characteristic of being
guileless ;honesty .
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Examples
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Through what Murray qualifies as his brother's "guilelessness," we get ironic insights.
Marcia G. Yerman: "Dad's in Heaven With Nixon" - A Documentary About Autism and Bipolar Disease 2010
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Through what Murray qualifies as his brother's "guilelessness," we get ironic insights.
"Dad's in Heaven with Nixon" - a Documentary About Autism and Bipolar Disease 2010
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Through what Murray qualifies as his brother's "guilelessness," we get ironic insights.
Marcia G. Yerman: "Dad's in Heaven with Nixon" - a Documentary About Autism and Bipolar Disease 2010
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The trouble is, this kind of guilelessness isn't confined to the unfortunate Pole.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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As of old in Corcyra, so now in Italy, 'guilelessness, which is the principal ingredient of genuine nobleness, was laughed down, and disappeared.' [
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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With his disarming guilelessness -- he has no trouble pointing out hypocrisy -- Kalu is a breath of fresh air in the face of the rigid formality and pomp that can sometimes characterize spiritual and religious leaders, and he has been inspiring a growing youth movement.
Jane Brunette: Connect With Your Spirituality ... On Facebook, Spirituality Meets The 21st Century, Spiritual Leaders/Teachers Now On Facebook, Jane Brunette 2011
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No other actor—except maybe France's Jean Gabin, with whom Tracy is sometimes compared—combined skepticism and guilelessness so effectively.
He Made a Career Out of Acting Ordinary David Mermelstein 2012
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His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.
Chameleon Andrew Clarke 2011
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Henshall reinforces this impression by playing Jerry as a man who proceeds through life in a state of jittery ignorance; he invests the character with the guilelessness of a man who seems oblivious, even to the fact that his own wife may be having an affair.
Betrayal - review 2011
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With his disarming guilelessness -- he has no trouble pointing out hypocrisy -- Kalu is a breath of fresh air in the face of the rigid formality and pomp that can sometimes characterize spiritual and religious leaders, and he has been inspiring a growing youth movement.
Jane Brunette: Connect With Your Spirituality ... On Facebook, Spirituality Meets The 21st Century, Spiritual Leaders/Teachers Now On Facebook, Jane Brunette 2011
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