guileless
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for guileless
Synonyms
artless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
Antonyms
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
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All the actors except for Curry double: Roz White and William T, Newman Jr. are particularly enjoyable as Undine’s guileless parents, and Aakhu TuahNera Freeman ably blends sweetness and flintiness as Undine’s not-so-innocent grandmother. — Celia Wren, Washington Post, "Lynn Nottage’s comic ‘Fabulation’ maps a slide down the social ladder," 28 Aug. 2019 Her Dora is utterly guileless, open, happy and lacks any trace of irony. — Randy Cordova, Detroit Free Press, "Live-action Dora the Explorer movie is surprisingly good," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'guileless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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guileless
adjective
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