guileless

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guileless

/ˈɡaɪl.ləs/
[ˈɡaɪɫ.ləs]

adjective more guileless · most guileless

Free from guile; honest but naive. To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.

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adj honest but naive

Français	candide
Deutsch	arglos
Italiano	ingenuo

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@misc{guileless_2026,
  title = {guileless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/guileless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}