How to Use guileless in a Sentence

guileless

adjective

• It’s as guileless as a piece of fruit still on the tree, yearning for the touch of the sun.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Sep. 2017
• Never trust a baby chick, not even the most downy and guileless.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Some of the gun unit's misdeeds would test the credence of even the most guileless readers of crime fiction.
  — Author: Timothy Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2018
• Some of the gun unit’s misdeeds would test the credence of even the most guileless readers of crime fiction.
  — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• Evert glanced up and saw a new girl approaching, pale and plump as a dumpling, with a guileless face beneath a mop of hair.
  — Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
• Love songs for Grantham shape nearly half the album, gentle and guileless tunes that glow.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The Jewish press does not see Abbas as such a guileless figure.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Yet this farcical tale is swallowed whole along with the meal by the hapless, guileless youths.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
• Evan Kokkila Schumacher has the perfect wide-eyed, guileless and passive face for the role of the robot.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
• Ja Rule, guileless or not, threw McFarland under the bus.
  — Bryan Burrough, The Hive, 4 July 2017
• At the start of the season, Ruth, in a guileless effort to advocate for her coworkers, appeals to Sam.
  — Rachel Vorona Cote, The New Republic, 28 June 2018
• One of the many artist friends for whom his poor, guileless Mildred served as patron was a struggling young writer named Harold Vanner.
  — Jonathan Dee, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Her Dora is utterly guileless, open, happy and lacks any trace of irony.
  — Randy Cordova, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2019
• To be honest once more: As a piece of writing, the book is disappointingly guileless.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The whole idea of a tourist attraction built as a guileless ode to love, and shrine to a Slovak poem, may strike you, at first blush, as defying both rhyme and reason.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• With her rosy cheeks, wide eyes, and frothy wardrobe, Fanning can look absolutely guileless one second and blood-hungry the next.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 June 2020
• Molly is sincere and guileless, a true foil for steely and withering Katherine.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 10 June 2019
• Stories aimed for young readers are often guileless, seeking fun for fun's sake.
  — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
• But there are other moments where like the goofy, guileless, unguarded teen of ten years ago seems to suddenly reappear.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• The only thing edgy about the guileless, earnest Will is his whip: a tactical weather truck called the Dominator that's like the Batmobile mated with a tank.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Now, nearly 50 years later, the Shaggs are a paragon of guileless, unfiltered outsider music.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
• Shams, gruff and guileless, badgered Rumi into risking a more vulnerable approach to the concealed and inexpressible—that is, the essence of God and of love.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• So does that of her friend Mary Whitney, here infused with equal vitality and guileless earnestness by the excellent Ayssette Munoz.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Marston declares that these two together are the perfect woman: Elizabeth is bold, smart, unfiltered and funny, while Olive is soft, guileless and pure of heart.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
• Marston declares that these two together are the perfect woman — Elizabeth is bold, smart, unfiltered and funny, while Olive is soft, guileless and pure of heart.
  — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 12 Oct. 2017
• Her Sandra can be vivid and elusive, warm and guarded, calculating and oddly guileless.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Read more: Marston declares that these two together are the perfect woman — Elizabeth is bold, smart, unfiltered and funny, while Olive is soft, guileless and pure of heart.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
• Jerry is a guileless family man with 13 children and eight funeral homes.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• Tyler Ashman complements Parrish as Adam, transforming from a guileless young man into a bereaved father over the course of his story.
  — Audrey Mitchell, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
• Folks seem to love themselves some Gypsy, a young Louisiana woman with a high voice and seemingly guileless personality.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024