All 3 Uses of
ingenuous
in
The Age of Innocence
- He had an idea that she knew how to take care of herself a good deal better than the ingenuous May imagined.†
Chpt 13
- Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination.†
Chpt 13 *
- This struck from all three allusions to Edgar Poe and Jules Verne, and such platitudes as naturally rise to the lips of the most intelligent when they are talking against time, and dealing with a new invention in which it would seem ingenuous to believe too soon; and the question of the telephone carried them safely back to the big house.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(ingenuous) innocent in the sense of lacking in sophistication or worldliness -- especially in being direct and not masking feelings