Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: guileless
IPA transcription: [ɡ'aɪlləs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: guileless, transparent
    Meaning: free of deceit
Usage examples
  • He had liked all police constables tenderly, with a guileless trustfulness.
  • Can we wonder that they should readily win a heart young, guileless, and susceptible?
  • It was on this visit also that the Senator made the acquaintance of Mr. Washington Hawkins, and was greatly taken with his innocence, his guileless manner and perhaps with his ready adaptability to enter upon any plan proposed.
  • While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl.
  • It broke in at once upon her dream of felicity; she looked upon it as a sudden and insurmountable evil, and wept with the guileless simplicity of a child. He drew her to his bosom and kissed the tears from her soft cheek; nor did he meet with a repulse, for there are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness which hallow the caresses of affection.