simple-heartedly

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

simple-hearted +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

simple-heartedly (comparative more simple-heartedly, superlative most simple-heartedly)

  1. In a simple-hearted manner; without guile, unsophisticatedly.
    • 2007, W. D. Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, →ISBN, page 68:
      "There wasn't," Alford protested, simple-heartedly. Then he recollected his sophistication to say: "Unless its being of that particular shade between brown and red was wrong."
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