adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Distressing, precisely because it was so genuine, so guileless .
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His thoughts were in turmoil and his open guileless face reflected the chaos in his mind.
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I was guileless and awkward in sports.
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If Cynthia Coppersmith were nothing else, she was guileless .
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She was totally guileless , honest, with a mordant sense of humour and sardonic wit.
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Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless .
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Urquhart is a manipulative murderer who could outfox Machiavelli, while Richardson seems utterly guileless .