naively

Example Sentences

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She wants to leave behind the slums and poverty of Nairobi for the United States, a country she naïvely believes to be without human suffering, but mostly she wants to get away from her mother.

From New York Times • May 28, 2023

But it refers to naïvely thinking that we see the world more realistically or objectively than we really do.

From Salon • May 7, 2023

At the beginning, I naïvely tried to alert them to the large numbers of Russian soldiers who were dying.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

When this happens, for a brief and lovely moment, I soak it all in and naïvely do feel part of a horror community before slipping back into the crowd.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

There was something boyish about him since she’d said yes on the veranda, something naïvely gleeful that she wished she felt too.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie