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Meanings of artlessness in English

Portuguese
naturalidade
Catalan
naturalitat
Spanish
inocencia

The quality of innocent naivete.

        naturalidade

        Ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit.

              Usage of artlessness in English
              1
              Jasmin united the naive artlessness of poetry with the perfection of art.
              Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
              2
              She chattered with the childish artlessness that at times veiled her sophistication.
              The Highgrader
              3
              One cannot be too careful, you know, she added with simulated artlessness.
              The Eyes of the World
              4
              No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of comedy.
              The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
              5
              The artlessness of these verses renders them none the less significant.
              America To-day, Observations and Reflections
              6
              The apparent artlessness of this political swindler prevented her from suspecting a trick.
              Bureaucracy
              7
              Perhaps it was her sincerity and artlessness that made her attractive.
              The Treasure-Train
              8
              Gedney Daab looked down at her ardent artlessness without a burst of laughter.
              Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
              9
              An air of purity, innocence, and artlessness hung round her like a veil.
              The Miracle of the Great St. Nicolas / 1920
              10
              She had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper and artlessness in herself.
              Emma
              11
              These examples, deliberately digressive, are certain of their uncertainties, artful in their apparent artlessness.
              The Guardian
              12
              Let us examine into this, and observe the exquisitely artful artlessness of the plan.
              A Tramp Abroad
              13
              She put the question with the artlessness of a child.
              Never-Fail Blake
              14
              His candour was as simple, as unaffected, as the serene artlessness of a child.
              Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
              15
              It was too much of the honest artlessness of youth.
              Assail
              16
              They are motionless but noisy, their full natures revealed in the artlessness of sleep.
              A disobedient girl: a novel
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