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naively

adverb as in childishly

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Would I hang these works in my living room, the visitor naïvely asks himself?

"It's easier to have you with me, Uncle Calvin," returned Sylvia naïvely.

"Perhaps he wants to borrow his boat," replied Sylvia naïvely.

As Dumbleshaw naïvely puts it, “having saved their country, these gallant gentlemen naturally took it for themselves.”

This Dorothy is a thoroughly ingenuous young person, naïvely outspoken to the point of silliness.

He remarks naïvely that if you could build a fire and give them something hot to eat, the sickness was dispelled!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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