(1) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(2) He is without a doubt the most guileless and gauche politician I have ever met.
(3) These horrors are undeniable, but the use of memoirs intended to distance their authors from Nazism by depicting Hitler's clique as contemptible reinforces the sense of Germans as guileless victims.
(4) We don't associate the slipperiness of memory with the guilelessness of youth.
(5) So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d' Caroline in recent BBC comedy Whites ) is relishing a change of threads for her role in Season's Greetings at the National.
(6) Plus of course to stop smiling that peculiarly guileless smile, the look of a man who’s just been hit on the head with a rock and thinks it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
(7) Still others come out of love, a guileless love for a country they don't yet know but that they hope will be all they've dreamed.
(8) Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own.
(9) Michael Rubinstein, solicitor for the publishers Penguin, was a friend of her father, who persuaded her to take the stand, judging correctly how lucid and guileless her evidence would be.
(10) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
(11) For the guileless pathos of that statement alone, I could forgive Hitchens almost anything.
(12) It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
(13) I looked into his guileless, headteacher's countenance.
(14) Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he’s serious, intense, guileless.
(15) Then the naughty boy can run rings round nanny, explaining, all guileless innocence, that he wasn't playing with the toys, just with the box.
(16) There is an endearing guilelessness to Criado-Perez.
(17) Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews – at once guileless and guarded – made her a target for music-press mockery.
(18) The way he enthuses about film is guileless, like a kid.
(19) Simon Cowell is musically irrelevant” – not even Walsh himself could have mistaken the outburst for anything other than guileless insecurity.
(20) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
Guiltless
Definition:
(a.) Free from guilt; innocent.
(a.) Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).
Example Sentences:
(1) "[U]ntil we realise that the trials of Navalny, Bolotnaya and hundreds of thousands of other guiltlessly convicted people are our trials, they are just going to keep on locking us up, one at a time," he wrote.
(2) Israelis themselves … are openly, shamelessly and guiltlessly defining themselves as nationalistic racists ," he wrote.
(3) Until we realise that the trials of Navalny, Bolotnaya, and hundreds of thousands of other guiltlessly convicted people are our trials, they are just going to keep on locking us up, one at a time.
(4) "Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity."
(5) It is without example in modern history that a brutal victor should revenge himself thus terribly upon the guiltless wives and children of his defeated enemies.