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like a babe in the woods
adjective as in ingenuous
adjective as in naive
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- artless
- callow
- candid
- confiding
- countrified
- credulous
- forthright
- frank
- fresh
- green
- guileless
- gullible
- harmless
- impulsive
- ingenuous
- innocuous
- instinctive
- jejune
- lamb
- natural
- open
- original
- patsy
- plain
- simple-minded
- spontaneous
- square
- sucker
- unaffected
- unjaded
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- unsuspicious
- untaught
- unworldly
- virgin
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Example Sentences
When Harriet stands before the white men of the Los Angeles City Council to argue her case, “Aja does this thing with her voice, it’s kind of high and a little vulnerable, and she’s so sweet, she seems like a babe in the woods, but she is a stone-cold killer,” Eisenberg says.
From Los Angeles Times
“I feel like a babe in the woods,” he said, ensconced in the ancient desert fortress, “I love it.”
From Los Angeles Times
Or rather you found me—lost like a babe in the woods.
From Project Gutenberg
"Do you know, Charley, I begin to feel like a babe in the woods," he confessed.
From Project Gutenberg
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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