Crossword-Solution: INGENUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ingenuous | a. | Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth. |
| Ingenuous | a. | Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. |
| Ingenuous | a. | Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. |
| Ingenuous | a. | Ingenious. |
We have 60 clues for the answer “INGENUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| unartful | 2 answers |
| homemade | 5 answers |
| in a state of nature | 6 answers |
| AVOWED | 11 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY AN INABILITY TO MASK YOUR FEELINGS | 11 answers |
| Inartistic | 12 answers |
| Unwary | 14 answers |
| confiding | 16 answers |
| credulous | 21 answers |
| undesigning | 22 answers |
| Stainless | 27 answers |
| Incorruptible | 27 answers |
| Unfeigned | 28 answers |
| Bona fide | 28 answers |
| unperjured | 36 answers |
| unstudied | 36 answers |
| Veracious | 39 answers |
| veridical | 39 answers |
| Inarticulate | 40 answers |
| unschooled | 40 answers |
| out of your depth | 50 answers |
| unpolluted | 52 answers |
| discomforted | 53 answers |
| Literal. | 54 answers |
| Factual | 54 answers |
| Unfailing | 55 answers |
| youngish | 55 answers |
| ill at ease | 56 answers |
| unprofessional | 58 answers |
| Innovative | 58 answers |
| erect | 59 answers |
| Uncontaminated | 59 answers |
| Unworldly | 59 answers |
| Untainted | 60 answers |
| Blunt | 61 answers |
| Uncorrupted | 61 answers |
| Unsullied | 61 answers |
| Straightforward | 63 answers |
| specific | 65 answers |
| untested | 66 answers |
| Inept | 66 answers |
| Harmless | 68 answers |
| Accurate | 68 answers |
| Unaffected | 68 answers |
| Childish | 69 answers |
| unreserved | 69 answers |
| graceless | 70 answers |
| artless | 70 answers |
| wholesome | 70 answers |
| Gauche | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INGENUOUS (5)
There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.
With ingenuous frankness he spoke of what a wicked, ill-disciplined boy he had been, and impulsively drew up his cuff to exhibit upon his wrist the scar from a saber cut which he had received in a duel outside of Paris when he was nineteen.
She does n’t see why you should have come here and set me by the ears: you are made to ruin ingenuous youths and desolate doting mothers.
Her extreme limpidity was almost provoking, and I felt for the moment that she would have been more satisfactory if she had been less ingenuous.
Swancourt, being more and more taken with his guest’s ingenuous appearance, having determined to rise early and bid him a friendly farewell.
Quotes with INGENUOUS (3)
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).