Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a simple heart; single-hearted; ingenuous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sincere; inguenuous; guileless.
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- adjective
sincere ;ingenuous ;guileless
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Examples
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The simple-hearted shepherd asked us what we were going to do with it and our godbrother answered through clenched teeth: 'We're going to chuck it in the sea, to see if it floats!'
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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A shameless minority wants to impose its will to the majority, and to achieve this goal they manipulate simple-hearted people who voted for Mousavi.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Islamist bloggers react to protest movement 2009
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The simple-hearted shepherd asked us what we were going to do with it and our godbrother answered through clenched teeth: 'We're going to chuck it in the sea, to see if it floats!'
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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A shameless minority wants to impose its will to the majority, and to achieve this goal they manipulate simple-hearted people who voted for Mousavi.
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A shameless minority wants to impose its will to the majority, and to achieve this goal they manipulate simple-hearted people who voted for Mousavi.
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The irony here is that the anchorman is sincere and simple-hearted in his message of friendship with the US.
"Turkish anchor wears blackface to report on Obama’s visit." Ann Althouse 2009
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Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest, “I want you to love her, too!”
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished, while his partner (his former clerk) having no funds but his share of the same business, into which he had been admitted without any advance of stock, had become gradually more and more wealthy.
Redgauntlet 2008
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“Well, I shall love him, the fine fellow!” said the countess, “he looks to me as simple-hearted as he is grand.”
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And so she was, to every one but her husband, a tall, simple-hearted rabbit-faced man, a good deal older than herself.
Westward Ho! 2007
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