Sentence examples for pretty ingenuous from inspiring English sources

But her wit often teeters on the edge of pain, as it does in that last sentence, which describes Laura and Clare's vilely haughty mother in "The Watch Tower," or as it does in this description of pretty, ingenuous Zoe Howard, who will marry disastrously in "In Certain Circles": "It never mattered what she said to men: they liked her to say anything".

Also included is Lulu (Charlotte Parry), a pretty young neighbor with an ingenuous view of older men.

"Arnold was naïve and ingenuous," he recalled.

He probably saw through my ingenuous fiction.

For this ingenuous, calmly addled creature is chaos incarnate.

I thought it was courageous, a bit ingenuous".

It was undeniably refreshing, if not entirely ingenuous.

In short he was both ingenious and ingenuous.

In real life, she was not quite so ingenuous.

I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.

This confident ambivalence makes Nigerian humour piquant and ingenuous.