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guilelessguile‧less /ˈɡaɪl-ləs/ adjective - Distressing, precisely because it was so genuine, so guileless.
- His thoughts were in turmoil and his open guileless face reflected the chaos in his mind.
- I was guileless and awkward in sports.
- If Cynthia Coppersmith were nothing else, she was guileless.
- She was totally guileless, honest, with a mordant sense of humour and sardonic wit.
- Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless.
- Urquhart is a manipulative murderer who could outfox Machiavelli, while Richardson seems utterly guileless.
behaving in an honest way, without trying to hide anything or deceive people SYN open |