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guileless
adjective guile·less \ˈgī(-ə)l-ləs\
: very innocent
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First Known Use of GUILELESS
circa 1616
Related to GUILELESS
- Synonyms
- artless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, on the level
- Antonyms
- affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
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