Ingenuous vs. Artless — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ingenuous and Artless
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Ingenuous
(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting
He eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes
She's staggeringly ingenuous, or possibly very cunning indeed
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Artless
Having or displaying no guile or deceit; honest or sincere
An artless child.
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Ingenuous
Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive
I'm not so ingenuous as to believe everything he says.
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Artless
Free of artificiality; natural
Artless charm.
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Ingenuous
Straightforward or frank; candid
"I must be so ingenuous as to own that the accounts are not so certain as to the exact time and place of his birth" (Memoir of Martinus Scriblerus).
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Artless
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
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Ingenuous
Naive and trusting.
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Artless
Poorly made or done; crude.
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Ingenuous
Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
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Artless
Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
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Ingenuous
Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
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Artless
Free of artificiality; natural.
This pendant has artless charm.
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Ingenuous
Unable to mask one's feelings.
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Artless
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
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Ingenuous
Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.
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Artless
Poorly made or done; crude.
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Ingenuous
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
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Artless
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Artless of stars and of the moving sand.
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Ingenuous
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty.
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Artless
Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
Artless and massy pillars.
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Ingenuous
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve.
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Artless
Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them.
O, how unlike the complex works of man,Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!
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Ingenuous
Ingenious.
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Artless
Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;
An ingenuous admission of responsibility
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Ingenuous
Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;
An ingenuous admission of responsibility
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Artless
Simple and natural; without cunning or deceit;
An artless manner
Artless elegance
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Ingenuous
Lacking in sophistication or worldliness;
A child's innocent stare
His ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
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Artless
Showing lack of art;
An artless translation
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Artless
(of persons) lacking art or knowledge
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