simple-heartedly

adv

simple-heartedly

adv

Etymology From simple-hearted + -ly.

1

In a simple-hearted manner; without guile, unsophisticatedly.

"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."2007, W. D. Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, →ISBN, page 68:

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