ingenuous
Adjective
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Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings;
Not devious (synset 301312946)"an ingenuous admission of responsibility"also:similar to:- candid, heart-to-heart, open - openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
- undistorted - without alteration or misrepresentation
same as: artless -
Lacking in sophistication or worldliness (synset 302280420)
"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"similar to: naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experiencesame as: innocent
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