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naivete
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    The naivete of the Fremen was frightening.†  (source)
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    But McCandless, in his naivete, relied on the advice of hunters he'd consulted in South Dakota, who advised him to smoke his meat, not an easy task under the circumstances.†  (source)
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    Is naivete really your armor?†  (source)
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    Adele sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the naivete of her age.†  (source)
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    It's a conservative wish-fulfillment, a yearning for naivete.†  (source)
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    On the lighter side, they were dismayed at my naivete and ignorance.†  (source)
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    They had thought to have a good laugh at him and his naivete!†  (source)
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    Notice the youth, naivete, and indignation of the young Conrack enraged.†  (source)
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    There were two kinds of naivete, he said, quoting Schweitzer; one not even aware of the problems, and another which has knocked on all the doors of knowledge and knows man can explain little, and is still willing to follow his convictions into the unknown.†  (source)
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    Just here, Franny, in apparent despair at the naivete of the question, struck her forehead with her hand.†  (source)
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    But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naivete that you started with?†  (source)
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    But the latter's good-natured naivete was so boundless that sometimes even he involuntarily yielded to Nicholas' good humor.†  (source)
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    Do you hear that phrase uttered with such premature haste—'if not I'—the animal cunning, the naivete, the Karamazov impatience of it?†  (source)
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