guileless• Distressing, precisely because it was so genuine, so guileless.• If Cynthia Coppersmith were nothing else, she was guileless.• Thorny presents sugarlumps in a plasticbowl and smiles; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless.• Urquhart is a manipulativemurderer who could outfox Machiavelli, while Richardson seems utterly guileless.• I was guileless and awkward in sports.• His thoughts were in turmoil and his open guileless face reflected the chaos in his mind.• She was totally guileless, honest, with a mordant sense of humour and sardonicwit.