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[ gahyl-lis ] / ˈgaɪl lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR guileless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivefree from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank. Origin of guilelessFirst recorded in 1720–30; guile + -less SYNONYMS FOR guilelessartless, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated. SEE SYNONYMS FOR guileless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM guilelessguile·less·ly, adverbguile·less·ness, nounWords nearby guilelessguildsman, guild socialism, guildswoman, guile, guileful, guileless, Guilford, Guilin, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Guillaume, Guillaume de Lorris Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for guilelessShe is, in the words of former Reagan operative Jeffrey Lord, “a guileless, fevered Marxist.” Warren Takes Credit for Occupy Wall Street|Samuel P. Jacobs|October 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST It puts you in touch with your guileless goals and essential desires. What the Stars Hold for Your Week|Starsky + Cox|July 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST And then, as in this 1972 letter to James Ivory, he is touchingly vulnerable and guileless. The Enigmatic Nomad|Kirk Davis Swinehart|February 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST Then looking at the guileless and faithful being beside him, he softened once more. The Far Horizon|Lucas Malet
Such a guileless soul that I thought flying would do something to a man. And so the Grail warders are waiting, waiting for the coming of the "guileless fool." The Complete Opera Book|Gustav Kobb In an instant, from what he had been he became the frank and guileless nobleman. To Have and To Hold|Mary Johnston This was no simple teamster, guileless of training, who faced him, but a man whose life was in the outer circle of the prize ring. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain|Ernest Thompson Seton
British Dictionary definitions for guileless
adjectivefree from guile; ingenuous Derived forms of guilelessguilelessly, adverbguilelessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to guilelessunsophisticated, aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unstudied, simple-minded, undesigning |