ingenuous
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lacking in sophistication or worldliness
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characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
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Naive and trusting.
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Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
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Unsophisticated; simple.
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Unable to mask ones feelings.
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Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.
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noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal
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free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc
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