Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ingenuous manner; frankly; openly; candidly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly.
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- adverb In an
ingenuous manner;frankly ,straightforwardly .
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- adverb in an ingenuous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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So — "ingenuously," I relieved him of his cash-box and two hundred guineas.
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But then "-- ingenuously --" I'm clever in some ways, much more clever than you'd think.
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Atticus, [11] Servius Sulpicius, Cato or Brutus, they are all your friends; conjure them to tell you ingenuously which is your great fault, and which they would chiefly wish you to correct; if they do not all agree in their verdict, in the name of all the gods, you are acquitted.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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The right-hand page shows in childlike handwriting the first lines of his poem “Pastoral”: “The little sparrows/hop ingenuously/about the pavement/quarreling.”
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The right-hand page shows in childlike handwriting the first lines of his poem “Pastoral”: “The little sparrows/hop ingenuously/about the pavement/quarreling.”
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Ruth smiled so ingenuously at the fairy story, that both men burst into laughter.
THE WHITE SILENCE 2010
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In short, On the Road seemed rather tame to me, its rebellion more ingenuously earnest than hard-edged, and I read no further Kerouac for many years.
October 2009 2009
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Apparently most of this fiction is to be dismissed as so many "literary bleeps and squeaks," although Evans is assuredly mistaken if he really thinks fiction will be returning to the practices of the past in some ingenuously earnest kind of way ( "down with self-consciousness!") or that the fiction characterized by "modernist attitudes" will just disappear.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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Like a dappled deer, in wanders Nicolas Niels Schneider, a tall curly-haired Adonis who loves ingenuously flirting with both of them.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Arthur -- The Movie I'll Never Watch Michael Giltz 2011
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Like a dappled deer, in wanders Nicolas Niels Schneider, a tall curly-haired Adonis who loves ingenuously flirting with both of them.
Michael Giltz: Heartbeats and the Rise of Xavier Dolan Michael Giltz 2011
guitar commented on the word ingenuously
Done in an innocent or unworldly way
July 8, 2014