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guilelessly
adverb
uk /ˈɡaɪl.ləs.li/ us /ˈɡaɪl.ləs.li/
in an honest way, with no effort to deceive anyone or get something you want:
We guilelessly announced to the police everything we knew, not realizing that we were suspects.
She hadn't expected to win the tournament and could only be guilelessly humble when she did.
The parents were often amused at how their young child guilelessly portrayed their non-traditional family in his drawings.
He guilelessly told her that her book sounded fascinating and that he hoped she found a publisher for it soon.
"I don't blame you for being upset," she told him guilelessly, after he explained what happened.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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artless
artlessly
artlessness
earnest
honestly
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in good faithidiom
integrity
joking apart/asideidiom
let's face itidiom
sincerely
stainless
straight arrowidiom
straight upidiom
straightforward
the straight and narrowidiom
transparency
upright
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