Meaning & use
Ingenuous
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Innocent, sincere, and unsuspecting; showing a lack of guile or deceit.
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Her ingenuous smile made it clear she had no idea about the surprise party.
He gave an ingenuous account of the accident, hiding nothing.
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Frequently confused with 'ingenious' (clever or inventive); the two words look alike but have unrelated meanings.
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