naive

Example Sentences

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“I didn’t go into my relationship with him blind. I am neither naive nor am I complicit,” she said, adding she and her husband discussed those claims.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

A Labour MP who resigned as a Cabinet Office minister has said he was "naive" and "so sorry" in his first full interview since leaving his role.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

It would be naive to say that wasn’t an accelerant.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

He had a grave, boyish dignity, that clean-eyed, scrubbed- brain, naive look of the happy professor.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara