naiveté
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Bailey has a wide-eyed clueless cuteness that lends to her character’s well-meaning naiveté — even her missteps have a way of working out.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
“The regime’s naiveté was to believe missile programs could make up for the lack of a capable air force,” said Saeid Golkar, an Iran expert at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Call it naiveté or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.
From Salon • May 25, 2025
The way it has played out suggests either naiveté, or a cavalier disregard for the young people this law was intended to help.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
It was either an amazing feat of stubbornness or naiveté, I thought, for someone who had seen so much death and suffering to still believe so unconditionally that everyone was as stand-up as he was.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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