Guileless

Word GUILELESS
Character 9
Hyphenation guile less
Pronunciations /ˈɡaɪl.ləs/

Definitions and meanings of "Guileless"

What do we mean by guileless?

Free of guile; artless. synonym: naive. adjective

Free from guile or deceit; sincere; honest.

Synonyms Truthful, candid, unsophisticated, open, frank, ingenuous, straightforward.

Free from guile; artless. adjective

Free from guile; honest but naïve. adjective

Free of deceit adjective

Free from guile; honest but naive.

free from any intent to deceive or impress others. Urban Dictionary

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The word "guileless" in example sentences

Viewing the name Japheth in this case, it signifies a person of the kind which we call guileless, who believes readily, permitting himself to be easily persuaded of a matter, who does not dispute or cling to his own ideas but submits his mind to the Lord and rests upon his Word, remaining a learner, not desiring to be master over the words and works of God. ❋ Martin Luther (1514)

His tone was bland, his expression guileless; the look in his eyes would even pass for innocent. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)

"Probably that you eat raw meat for breakfast and raw babies for dinner," Kethry replied, and Tarma could see the struggle to keep her expression guileless in the laughter sparkling in her eyes. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1989)

In the Brown camp the great family of fugitives dwelt together in guileless and trusting brotherhood under the patriarchal care of Captain Brown, who daily praised the Eternal Sire, and one soul of harmony and love was infused into each individual dweller. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)

Can someone give me a sentence for the word guileless? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or this, further, it may represent, in striking and inspiring way, -- that the pure in heart shall win the victories in life; that the guileless are the valiant sons of God; that the heart that resists evil passion and is touched by pity for the world's woe is the heart that reincarnates the passionate purity of the Christ and can reveal again the healing power, the Holy Grail of God. ❋ Oliver Huckel (1902)

Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir Launcelot. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

I could not recall the guileless simplicity of childhood, its sweet unconsciousness and contentment, in the present joy. ❋ Caroline Lee Hentz (1828)

We weren't afraid of letting the world see it because we knew that that kind of guileless honesty would show the world that we believed in ourselves and our system. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He had the kind of guileless eyes that hide nothing. ❋ Child, Lee (2003)

Somehow the eyes grew larger, innocent, and tearful; the lower lip quivered, and the entire face took on a kind of guileless stupidity mingled with frightened innocence. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

He has passed from innocence to knowledge in his interview with the flower-girt girls, in his long converse with Kundry, in her insidious embrace, in her kiss; but all these are now thrust aside; he steps forth still unconquered, still "guileless," but no more "a fool." ❋ Unknown (1870)

Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He felt he had penetrated the guileless disguise of her nom de plume: “If [the sketches] originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the art of making himself, mentally, so like a woman, since the world began.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Humbert knows he has always had a Lolita shaped hole in his heart, and his fate is sealed when he first catches sight of her guileless, sunbathing form on a suburban lawn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All in all, a highly performative personality is a sensitive, guileless, unworldly one, that is often prone to anxieties and highly vulnerable to both criticism and self-criticism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

she was an [easy-going], [guileless] [young woman] who was comfortable just being herself. ❋ Justin Victor Knight (2009)

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