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ingenuous in English:

1. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings



English word "ingenuous"(characterized by an inability to mask your feelings) occurs in sets:

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2. innocent and unsuspecting



3. innocent


One of the most horrible things that can occur is to have an innocent man wrongly accused, and that's what's happening here.
Nothing is so appealing as the innocent face of a sleeping baby.
I'm innocent.
After the war, the Netherlands was the country that executed and tortured the most Japanese, though some of them were innocent.
After being proven innocent, the killer cucumber went into a well deserved retirement in Spain.
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
Under the reign of tyranny, innocent people were deprived of their citizenship.
Mom was innocent enough to ask him: "Would you like any more beer?"
We're here because we believe your son is innocent. Innocent people died during the shooting.
The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.
Don't underestimate me. I might look cute and innocent but if it comes down to it, I'll bitch-slap you to death.
Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.
Under the law, everyone is considered innocent until proved guilty.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

4. naive


It's naive of you to believe that.
Don't be so naive!
You must be very naive to be taken in by such a story.
The naive man blushed with shame.
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
Are you still letting last night's fight bother you? That's so naive.
Am I that selfish or he's just too naive?
Stop slagging off my brilliant idea, it's not naive at all!
When she first saw the size of it, my naive girlfriend was blown away.
The townspeople were astonishingly naive about what the smugglers were.
They were too naive to understand the necessity of studying.
a naive person lacks experience of life and tends to believe things too easily
Innocence personified, being naive in such a world can be quite a burden.
Andy had a sweet, naive look when he smiled
/naɪˈiːv/ She was very naive to ​believe that he'd ​stay with her.