guilelessly

adverb

as in sincerely
without any attempt to impress by deception or exaggeration guilelessly revealed that she had worked as a navy pilot before becoming a writer

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  1. sincerely
  2. genuinely
  3. openly
Adverb
  • But the results and the action on the field were second to the experience for Baldwin, who was sincerely present in the moment during the two days of All-Star Game activities.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
  • Clint and his management team sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this cancellation may cause.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
Definition of sincerely
Adverb
  • Nvidia organized this letter and also owns CUDA, the proprietary software layer that makes its hardware genuinely hard to leave.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • My treatments ranged from the restorative to the genuinely bracing.
    — Jamie Timson, TheWeek, 24 July 2026
Definition of genuinely
Adverb
  • The actions mark a sharp break with a US practice of handling bilateral disputes largely behind closed doors, and not openly interfering in Mexican politics.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • An openly gay man in Catholic Italy as well as an old-school romantic, Visconti was cinema’s great poet of impossible loves.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of openly
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