Both Uses of
ingenuous
in
David Copperfield
- I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- He saw, I suppose, that I could not help smiling at the simplicity of this reply; and added, with a smile upon his own ingenuous face: 'Not, of course, but that my Sophy — pretty name, Copperfield, I always think?'†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(ingenuous) innocent in the sense of lacking in sophistication or worldliness -- especially in being direct and not masking feelings