ingenuous
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1. ingenuous - Adjective
2. ingenuous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
Ingenious.
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Some maintain that such a tendency distorts the curve of tradition. Do they derive their arguments from the future or the past? The future does not belong to them, as far as we are aware, and one be singularly ingenuous to seek to measure that which exists by that which exists no longer.
Some maintain that such a tendency distorts the curve of tradition. Do they derive their arguments from the future or the past? The future does not belong to them, as far as we are aware, and one be singularly ingenuous to seek to measure that which exists by that which exists no longer.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible.
The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.