INGENUOUS

ingenuous

1. [Adjective]: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

2. 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"

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