Both Uses of
ingenuous
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Mitya went on with the same confiding ingenuousness, drying his face and hands on the towel, and putting on his coat.†
Chpt 8 *
- Though to laugh at Mitya to his face was rather a risky proceeding, there was much laughter behind his back, especially in the tavern, at his own ingenuous public avowal that all he had got out of Grushenka by this "escapade" was "permission to kiss her foot, and that was the utmost she had allowed him."†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(ingenuous) innocent in the sense of lacking in sophistication or worldliness -- especially in being direct and not masking feelings