naiveté

Example Sentences

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“Dance No More” has a few squawky synths that hint at an appealingly analog ’80s feel, but everything is rendered so immaculately that any sense of naiveté is quickly snuffed out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 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

Nor does she take the easy route of mistaking a young woman’s naiveté for passivity or victimhood, qualities that could scarcely be more absent from Spaeny’s intensely watchful performance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Such naiveté allowed members of that class to enrich themselves, fostering the rise of an oligarchy that sought to corrupt the government, and periodically succeeded.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2023

“They probably were. Our childish naiveté saved us.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia