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She criticized America's naïve foreign policy.naïve = lacking the understanding or sophistication that comes from experience
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Being naive, she is too quick to believe what people say.
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"This isn't me being naive," I tell her. (source)naive = unsophisticated (lacking the kind of understanding that comes with experience)
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An affable Victorian gentleman, Franklin was said to be a good-natured bumbler, dogged and clueless, with the naive ideals of a child and a disdain for acquiring backcountry skills. (source)naive = lacking the understanding or sophistication that comes from experience
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I mean she was naive and unassuming, a grown-up and a child at the same time, plus she was a touch crazy. (source)
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Maybe this kid isn't as naive as he looks. (source)naive = lacking in experience and sophistication
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You think you're so grown-up, don't you? But you're so naive. (source)naive = lacking the understanding that comes from experience
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When Sofia was just five, the Count had assumed, naively perhaps, that she would grow up to be a dark-haired version of her mother. (source)naively = in the manner of someone who lacks experience
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"Don't pretend to be naïve, Wade," Sorrento said. (source)naïve = overly trusting (in an unsophisticated childlike manner)
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Apparently it was from naïvely confiding the truth of his mission to the wrong people that led to his capture.† (source)
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Now the element of ignorance and naivety in all this is so large, and the element of spiritual pride so small, that it gives us little hope of the girl herself.† (source)
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He has his place neither in the background nor in the foreground of the story; he is simply seen skulking on its outskirts, enigmatical and unclean, tainting the fragrance of its youth and of its naiveness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as "this prodigious giant," and "this horrible sky-towering monster," and "this tusked and taloned man-devouring ogre", and everybody took in all this bosh in the naivest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.† (source)
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It was not so much finding court offices even here that shocked K., he was mainly shocked at himself, at his own naïvety in court matters.† (source)
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Some people say they were negligent parents; others that they were merely distant, or naive. (source)naive = too optimistic (without understanding that typically comes with experience)
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I naively thought.† (source)
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