INGENUOUS in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for INGENUOUS, such as:

1. All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.
2. I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.
3. Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.
4. She couldn't satisfy her ingenuity in planning meals.
5. Brent's wide ingenuous face was puzzled and mildly indignant.

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 Meanings and Examples of INGENUOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ingenuous
 a.  naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
2  What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly closed again.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING
3  There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they have a "stealable" air.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
4  But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
5  All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
6  He was a stout man, of about two- or three-and-twenty, with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
7  Brent's wide ingenuous face was puzzled and mildly indignant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  He was, however, anticipated by the voice of the ingenuous and youthful Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
10  As Dantes spoke, Villefort gazed at his ingenuous and open countenance, and recollected the words of Renee, who, without knowing who the culprit was, had besought his indulgence for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
11  I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
12  An ingenuous, transparent life was disclosed, as if the flow of her existence could be seen passing within her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
13  Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
14  Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  She couldn't satisfy her ingenuity in planning meals.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  The woodsman had not realized how ingenuous Little Red Riding Hood was until he heard that she had gone off for a walk in the woods with the Big Bad Wolf.
2  A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
3  It took some ingenuity to squeeze all the furniture into the little room.
4  Getting out of this mess was going to require a fair degree of ingenuity.
5  Inspecting the nest may require some ingenuity.
6  Although she was forty, she still insisted that she be cast as an ingenue and refused to play more mature roles.
7  It would be tempting to read his gee-whiz protestations as the practiced act of a canny ingenue.
8  This is no time to have a political ingenue as secretary of state.