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guilelessly

/gahyl-lis/US // ˈgaɪl lɪs //UK // (ˈɡaɪllɪs) //

毫无顾忌地,无罪,无意中,无愧于心

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.

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Examples

  • Casting the bubbly, adorable Feldstein opposite the prosthetically monstrosified Paulson and Owen is like casting a guileless little bunny as the final girl in a creature feature.

  • A professional writer’s prose is never guileless or innocent.

  • I was guileless, eager to take risks, a catamaran racing breakneck through every channel I encountered.

  • In a town populated by guileless, soft-hearted idealists, Terry is refreshingly complex—ruthless in advancing his own material interests but also sincerely committed to righting the historical wrongs perpetrated against his people.

  • Ada is guileless and candid with a natural storytelling manner that’s immediately engaging.

  • At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless.

  • She is, in the words of former Reagan operative Jeffrey Lord, “a guileless, fevered Marxist.”

  • It puts you in touch with your guileless goals and essential desires.

  • And then, as in this 1972 letter to James Ivory, he is touchingly vulnerable and guileless.

  • As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

  • In spite of her sharpened wits, Mrs. Kaye smiled radiantly into Isabel's guileless eyes.

  • He was thirty but looked little over twenty, and his large limpid blue eyes were as guileless as a child's.

  • The guileless Connie saw a pink mass in the dim shadows opposite her.

  • The leopards came and sat near the houses as guileless as children; the boars snorted and ran into the rice fields to hide.