Meanings
adverbsimple-heartedly (comparative more simple-heartedly, superlative most simple-heartedly)
comparative more simple-heartedly · superlative most simple-heartedly · alternative simpleheartedly
- 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
Origin
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