simple-hearted
adjEtymology From simple + hearted.
1
sincere
- He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- “My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognised as such,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.2015, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, →ISBN:
2
ingenuous; guileless
- Derived terms
- simple-heartedly, simple-heartedness