ingenuous

Adjective
  1. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings;
    Not devious (synset 301312946)
    "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
    also:
    • sincere - open and genuine; not deceitful
    • naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
    similar to:
    same as: artless
  2. 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 experience
    same as: innocent

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