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ingenuous

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ingenuous in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
    "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
    ingenuous  artless 
  2. lacking in sophistication or worldliness
    "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
    innocent  ingenuous 
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