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simpleheartedly

simpleheartedly is the alternative form of simple-heartedly.

Meaning of simple-heartedly

Adverb

simple-heartedly (comparative more simple-heartedly, superlative most simple-heartedly)

  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

Forms of simpleheartedly

comparativemore simpleheartedly
superlativemost simpleheartedly

Origin of simpleheartedly

From simplehearted + -ly.

Questions about simpleheartedly

What is simpleheartedly the alternative form of?
Simpleheartedly is the alternative form of simple-heartedly.

Words near simpleheartedly in the dictionary

  1. simple-mindedly
  2. simple-mindedness
  3. simplectic
  4. simpled
  5. simplehearted
  6. simpleheartedly
  7. simpleheartedness
  8. simpleminded
  9. simplemindedly
  10. simplemindedness
  11. simpleness

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