naif
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He’s a frustrated naif trying to gain agency, to figure himself out.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024
When he decided to tell the government to go pound sand, he was not some naif who hadn't been in government before and didn't know the rules.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2023
Chavo was a knuckled-headed naif, but he also punctured others’ self-importance in ways that gave him a modicum of power.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2022
Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
In the midst of all this struggle was Henri Rousseau, the real and only naif of this time, and certainly among the truest of all times.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
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