Meaning & use
guileless
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Honest and without deception or cunning; innocent.
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The child's guileless smile made it obvious he wasn't hiding anything.
Her guileless answers convinced the interviewer she had nothing to hide.
A note on using this word
Guileless describes someone incapable of trickery, the opposite of being 'full of guile,' rather than simply someone who is naive.
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