How to Use ingenuous in a Sentence

ingenuous

adjective

• The former spouses co-parent an ingenuous teen, Carmelo (Jalyn Hall).
  — Judy Berman, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
• Modern Love used a photo of David Bowie in a long dress as his profile picture, and so the ingenuous, myopic Floyd expects a woman.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
• Ross, meanwhile, exudes suspiciously ingenuous charisma as the heavily accented voice coming out of Meek’s Speak & Spell.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
• Talk of a solution—of two states, of a confederation, of nearly any prospect for a secure and free mode of coexistence—has long been dismissed as either an ingenuous assertion of faith or a cynical pantomime, an empty gesture toward a future no one expects to see.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
• Ella Stiller is their ingenuous aide-de-camp, Busy Philipps a flamboyant investor and Renée Elise Goldsberry as an opposing counsel who has history with Colter.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026