How to use "ingenuous" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "ingenuous" in popular movie and book plots

  • He fakes his own death and disappears from imperial Rome to contrive an ingenuous plan to hide this secret gospel of Christ from those who would destroy it.  - The Last Gospel (novel)
  • José’s amiable and ingenuous nature, despite his poverty and the responsibility of providing for his family members, soon attract Nicholas’s curiosity and the pair strike up a friendship.  - The Spanish Gardener
  • She has two siblings - Álvaro (Fabián Robles), a dissipated young man who spends the majority of his time chasing girls and getting drunk, and Soledad (Lorena Enríquez), a beautiful and ingenuous young girl who falls in love with Gabriel Durán (Juan Soler), the handsome gamester and ex-lover of their greedy step-mother Cassandra (Alejandra Ávalos), who moves to San Gaspar after winning the hacienda of Don Ignacio Andrade (Arsenio Campos), Julio's closest friend, in a poker game.  - Apuesta por un amor
  • He is a good guy, ingenuous and honest, but he is also very strong.  - Worst (manga)
  • He becomes acquainted with his co-stars, including Gonard, a tall, husky, sweet, rather dimwitted young man who portrays the primary antagonist of the LilyMu series, Lily, the spoiled, heartless portrayer of the otherwise ingenuous and sweet damsel-in-distress of LilyMu who contempts Mikey for having overtaken her limelight, Mitsuki, a sweet-natured actress infatuated with Mikey who plays a much tougher character in the series than in reality, and Guano, a small, fuzzy purple creature with many insecurities, responsibilities, strange habits and tendencies.  - Kappa Mikey

Meaning of "ingenuous" in English

  • characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
  • lacking in sophistication or worldliness
    Example
    - his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it

Meaning of "ingenuous" in Hindi

  • सीधा सादा ( Sidha sada, seedhaa saadaa)

Synonyms of "ingenuous"

  • innocent
  • artless

Antonyms of "ingenuous"

  • disingenuous
  • artful

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