What does ingenuitous mean?
Ingenuitous means (colloquial, rare) Having or displaying ingenuity..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(colloquial, rare) Having or displaying ingenuity..
I hope all who try to make easels will meet with success, as I did, but I fear all cannot hope to be cheered, as I was when mine was first exhibited, by the astonished and admiring exclamation of, “O-o-o my ! Isn’t it pretty? How ingenuitous you be!” But never mind; doubtless it will be only because your friends have not sufficient command of pure English to express their unbounded admiration.
Thus the reason why the hacker ethos is disappearing is simple: people are doing what they do in the real world here in cyberspace, and the fact is, there are far more petty vandals (wannabes) in the real world than brilliant, ingenuitous intellectuals (hackers).
But I am sure there are some ingenuitous things here or there...
Obviously, Mexicans are very ingenuitous, and adapt them as they see fit.
Use ingenuitous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ingenuitous means (colloquial, rare) Having or displaying ingenuity..
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I hope all who try to make easels will meet with success, as I did, but I fear all cannot hope to be cheered, as I was when mine was first exhibited, by the astonished and admiring exclamation of, “O-o-o my ! Isn’t it pretty? How ingenuitous you be!” But never mind; doubtless it will be only because your friends have not sufficient command of pure English to express their unbounded admiration.
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