ingenuous

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It means to spot mistakes in software in some ingenuous fashion.

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Quick take

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

adjective

lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ingenuous.

adjective

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

adjective

lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"

Example sentences

It means to spot mistakes in software in some ingenuous fashion.

>I think its dis-ingenuous to deny thisI didn't mention stop signs or red lights in my comment.

Gruber's comment here is a bit ingenuous:"Don Chadwick is the designer behind both the Aeron and the Chadwick.

How seriously he hoped to be taken and how ingenuous his motivations are fun to debate, but I love the piece.

I think you've done a pretty good job of painting yourself as a selfish asshole, and trying to paint yourself as the victim is less ingenuous.

Its ingenuous how they talk about indie developers.

I don't actually know the definition of ingenuous, it felt right but a I may be confusing it for a near-homophone.

Woz is not only the prototypical engineering genius, he practically defines the term ingenuous.

He was obviously not being ingenuous and it's amazing to me that anyone can watch the video and think there's any question about it; he's describing the fact that they had to figure how to do side-effects.

And "have you ever had to" questions are ingenuous - interview settings are never going to be replicated exactly in a work setting, unless your job is to go around to be interviewed for different jobs.

"I like the thought behind it, but it seems a liiiitle bit ingenuous to say it like that because success usually constitutes being acquired later on by the supposed "big company" and VC's making a lot of money.