simple-heartedly
See also: simpleheartedly
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From simple-hearted + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]simple-heartedly (comparative more simple-heartedly, superlative most simple-heartedly)
- In a simple-hearted manner; without guile, unsophisticatedly.
- 2007, W. D. Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, →ISBN, page 68:
- "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."