INGENUOUS, INGENUOUSNESS
ADJECTIVES
► BLUE-EYED ingenuous; innocent → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► GAELIC foolish, ingenuous, naive → 1910 Sc.
► OPEN-VISAGED having a frank or ingenuous face → 1494 obs.
► SIMPLE-HEARTED ingenuous, sincere, unsophisticated → 1711
► SINGLE-MINDED sincere in mind or spirit; honest, straightforward; simple-minded, ingenuous → 1577
► SLY marked or characterized by skill or dexterity; showing skilfulness or ingenuity; cleverly or finely made → 1297 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BABY-DOLL an ingenuous girl or woman with pretty features like those of a doll
► PALAMEDES a clever, ingenuous person → 1822 (Bk.)
► SIMPLICITY a simple or ingenuous child → 1887
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