She answered the judge's questions artlessly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an artless child. ,artless beauty; artless charm. ,an artless translation. From Dictionary.com.
"Good-by, Mr. Derry," said the little girl artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
"Is anything the matter, Tom?" asked Annie artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
"What do you think, Aunt Sophie?" she asked artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
Chad took this, almost artlessly, as a direct allusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
He liked that too — admired it artlessly, like a child. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
The girl laughed artlessly, and gave him her hand, saying. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
But he knew Burns, and on Burns he grew artlessly eloquent. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
I artlessly jammed my hand beneath the wet spongy bikini bra. From Wordnik.com. [My Life In Pools] Reference
She said all this so openly, so artlessly, that I believed her. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
Marquise was not insensible to the artlessly admitted conquest. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
“I am very sorry for forgetting myself,” she said artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
The poor child artlessly related the too brief tale of her love. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] Reference
Two artlessly sweet breathings of Elfin Table, from the Helvetian. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Gerfaut smiled bitterly at this suggestion, artlessly uttered by the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As regards ordinary combatants, one should fight with them artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The captain of the Ronin wore his bemusement as artlessly as his beard. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
“I thought you were going to say that!” he answered rather artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
And having thus artlessly betrayed Andy's ambition, little Jim went to bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
You cannot think how artlessly and prettily she assures me of her happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Hotel] Reference
"He's coming up here for a visit as soon as the wet's over," she added artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
Finally she forgot it, however, and listened artlessly to what he had to tell her. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
"I meet Deleah sometimes as she comes home from school," the young man artlessly continued. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
But in this confession, so artlessly made, Brandon saw only a love that was filial or sisterly. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
This she artlessly expressed to him, who could not be insensible to the tenderness it discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
Without giving Alexandra a chance to reply, she artlessly confessed that she was not clever at all. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
"Neither my father, nor my brother, nor my dead mother ever kissed me like that!" she said, artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
On such occasions she artlessly surveyed the person speaking; and then there was a time for a painter. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
She paused, artlessly, and let a wrinkle crease her forehead, as if a new thought had just occurred to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
Bea artlessly considered Carol the most beautiful and accomplished lady in the country; she was always shrieking. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
A few frail sticks, artlessly interwoven with grass, formed a primitive weir at the down-stream end of the crossing. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
Bill Clinton, at his best, appears to be "composed of all sorts of persons or things," and communicates it artlessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference
"I will pay you your own fee," grinned the Writer, as he fingered a cheque-book, artlessly placed upon the top of a desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
At last he must be attending to those things — and she said artlessly that she would be “around” when school let out. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
Besides, she had lied so artlessly to the others, without a tremor of her candid eyes — why should she not lie to him, too?. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Frowning, he studied the artlessly casual phrases as if he could see through them to what was really in her mind as she wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
But she was very young, and had been, perhaps, so artlessly in love that it took little art to overturn her too rash affection. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
‘I have noticed several ladies and gentlemen looking at me,’ said Elfride artlessly, showing her pleasure at being observed. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
As her hands curved artlessly around the thick column of his sweaty neck, he crushed her slender, giving body against his hard one. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
But in the frame of mind in which she had been since the end of the year she was no longer capable of laughing artlessly and merrily. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
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