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ingenuous
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showing simplicity, honesty, or innocence and willing to trust others due to a lack of life experience
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not having a cunning nature
Example
The young intern’s ingenuous enthusiasm was refreshing to the team.
His ingenuous belief in fairy tales persisted well into adulthood.
He was taken advantage of due to his ingenuous nature.
Her ingenuous questions revealed how new she was to the industry.
She smiled at his ingenuous attempt to solve the problem on his own.
