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GUILELESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does guileless mean?
• GUILELESS (adjective)
The adjective GUILELESS has 1 sense:
1. free of deceit
Familiarity information: GUILELESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Context examples
Miss Bates's gratitude for Mrs. Elton's attentions to Jane was in the first style of guileless simplicity and warmth.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I am glad to think there were two such guileless hearts at Peggotty's marriage as little Em'ly's and mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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