Synonyms of guileless
Examples of guileless in a Sentence
she was an easygoing, guileless young woman who was comfortable just being herself
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And yet the track that perhaps best represents Orange’s guileless spirit is the one tune here Presley didn’t write.
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Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2026
Five goals down at half-time, the Azerbaijani champions were hapless and guileless, incapable of delaying or deflecting Gordon’s acceleration and utterly without attacking merit until the game was yanked far beyond them.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
In the scrum of literature about the Kennedys and their satellites, the wives, saddled with the heavy work of making the family grow, Beller’s book is guileless.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The child is as smart and cunning as Dunk is thick and guileless.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 29 Apr. 2026
Five goals down at half-time, the Azerbaijani champions were hapless and guileless, incapable of delaying or deflecting Gordon’s acceleration and utterly without attacking merit until the game was yanked far beyond them.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
In the scrum of literature about the Kennedys and their satellites, the wives, saddled with the heavy work of making the family grow, Beller’s book is guileless.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The child is as smart and cunning as Dunk is thick and guileless.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Guileless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guileless. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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guileless
adjective
guile·less
ˈgī(ə)l-ləs 
guilelessly
adverb
guilelessness
noun
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