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Example sentences for "ingenuously"

Lexicographically close words:
ingenti; ingenue; ingenuities; ingenuity; ingenuous; ingenuousness; inges; ingest; ingested; ingestion
  1. What specially struck me was that it did not occur to her that her husband required stating, which was ingenuously impressive.

  2. In fact, this was a thing she quite ingenuously believed.

  3. If she had not been of the most unpretentious nice breeding and unaffected taste, Emily might have been ingenuously funny in her process of transformation.

  4. She was ingenuously interested in her fate, and affectionately sympathetic.

  5. She had never heard of it, and was in fact of an orthodoxy so ingenuously entire as to make her feel that belief in the existence of such things was a sort of defiance of ecclesiastical laws.

  6. It is verified from the fact that Francesca herself, in a letter written to Abate Franceschini, ingenuously confesses (Summary of the Fisc, No.

  7. I profess ingenuously an excellent good Lady this of mine, though I do not like her Counsel to the young Man, who I perceive would be a Suitor to my Daughter Isabella.

  8. She veiled herself with indifference lightly embroidered with irony and, believing herself sheltered from a too inquisitive glance, ingenuously replied: "It is really but three years since I was twenty-seven.

  9. Also learn that at that time Madame du Boys was not without attractions for me, in her so ingenuously perverse naivete,--and had you not come, I should have made perhaps another little trip with her to Switzerland.

  10. The first point to be settled is: Did Shakespeare reveal himself very ingenuously and completely in Antonio, or was the "royal merchant" a mere pose of his, a mood or a convention?

  11. She coming to Town, and seeing our Intimacy so great, she gave her self the Liberty of taking me to task concerning it: I ingenuously told her we were not married, but I did not know what might the Event.

  12. I must own I conceived very extraordinary hopes of you from the Moment that you confessed your Age, and from eight and forty (where you had stuck so many Years) very ingenuously step'd into your Grand Climacterick.

  13. This much she ingenuously avowed in a letter to Dr.

  14. Lord Lovelace ingenuously adds: 'It is unnecessary to produce them here, as their contents are confirmed and made sufficiently clear by the correspondence of 1819, in another chapter.

  15. And I cannot but believe, that those celebrated performers, notwithstanding all their professions of having ingenuously communicated their art, industriously concealed their best receipts from the publick.

  16. In it I ingenuously confessed the whole state of my mind, and what had occasioned it.

  17. You are too good, sir," said I, "to receive with so much kindness a culprit who appears before you ingenuously to acknowledge the infraction of a treaty into which he had the honor of entering with you.

  18. I not only postulate a morrow when I prepare for it, but ingenuously and heartily believe that the morrow will come.

  19. De Rerum Varietate, he ingenuously declares that he had never had any other genius but his own: Ego certe nullum daemonem aut genium mihi adesse cognosce" (Note of Paul Lacroix.

  20. Kepler, as was his custom, ingenuously related his trials and disappointments.

  21. I had meant to continue this performance till I had gathered enough money for a certain purpose; I confess ingenuously I have not the courage.

  22. I confessed to him ingenuously that my nerve was quite shook amid these horrible surroundings, and I durst scarce tell him to count upon me.

  23. Alike those who ingenuously admired and those who wished to seem indifferent paid the homage of observation to Mrs. Elgar, as she stood exchanging greetings with the friends who came forward.

  24. Why must she be mysteriously conscious of his inner being, rather than take him ingenuously for what he seemed?

  25. Ingenuously he explained that he did not know much himself yet; but he thought that they might get on better if they drilled by themselves a bit, and that if he helped them, and they helped him, they would soon learn.

  26. The letter was simply and ingenuously written and showed how deep and strong is the loyalty which binds the German Army to its supreme Chief and Emperor.

  27. Explain, and I will ingenuously tell you whether I am one or not.

  28. But here before my very eyes was the most dangerous man-and-woman game in the world being played as frankly and ingenuously and transiently as though it had been croquet.

  29. It is all so ingenuously and frankly unashamed--the mouthing, boasting, and threats of their piety.

  30. As ingenuously and heartily as before, he kissed her again and, this time, she kissed too.

  31. Such things will, of course, happen and though George had quite ingenuously raged in secret, the circumstances left him free to "hover" and hovering was a pastime he enjoyed.

  32. But Rousseau resolved to do what Montaigne had done, more ingenuously and more courageously than Montaigne had done it.

  33. She therefore told him ingenuously all that had happened since they met at Swansea; most of which he already knew from Delamere.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ingenuously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    genuinely; honestly; naturally; openly; plainly; simply