ARTLESS in a Sentence

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For ARTLESS, below is one of 12 sentences:
I may not have used it to the best account; I was young and inexperienced; but I never turned a deaf ear to its artless pleading.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARTLESS
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artless
 a.  free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
Classic Sentence:
1  But, dear heart, we all have our little weaknesses, and find it easy to pardon such in the young, who satisfy our eyes with their comeliness, and keep our hearts merry with their artless vanities.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
2  "I kissed her," began Demi, with artless frankness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
3  They all helped one another with humorous attentiveness, as though they had all agreed to rehearse a sort of artless farce.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
5  I may not have used it to the best account; I was young and inexperienced; but I never turned a deaf ear to its artless pleading.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
6  She laughed her mellow, easy laugh, that was either very artless or very comprehending, one never quite knew which.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
7  And then they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  It was as if I had seen Dora, in all her fascinating artlessness, caressing Agnes, and thanking her, and coaxingly appealing against me, and loving me with all her childish innocence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
9  Noticing that all eyes were turned on him he raised his head and smiled a smile of childlike artlessness.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 21
10  Haidee took the porcelain cup in her little slender fingers and conveyed it to her mouth with all the innocent artlessness of a child when eating or drinking something which it likes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
Example Sentence:
1  Sophisticated and cynical, Jack could not believe Jill was as artless and naive as she appeared to be.
2  The page is a young man of color who raps in crushingly artless rhymes.