characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;
\\\"an ingenuous admission of responsibility\\\"
lacking in sophistication or worldliness;
\\\"a child\\\'s innocent stare\\\"
\\\"his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
She looked at him with an ingenuous smile. 她帶著天真的微笑望著他。
He is too ingenuous in believing what people say. 他太天真，輕信別人的話。
She\\\'s an ingenuous country girl. 她是個單純的鄉(xiāng)村姑娘。
It was his ingenuous smile that won Deborah\\\'s heart. 是他率直的微笑贏得了黛博拉的芳心。
She gave ingenuous answers to the strangers\\\'entire question. 她坦率地解答了那位門外漢的全部疑問。
常用短語
I will be ingenuous enough to confess something of this may be true.