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naively
adverb as in childishly
Weak matches
Example Sentences
“Things are not as they used to be,” Charles naively says.
Mr Allen said the "highly addictive" substance was being increasingly abused by young people, who sometimes "naively" considered it to be safer than Class A drugs.
This makes viewers susceptible to believing it - "not all crazy conspiracy theorists who naively fall for disinformation".
Many of us naively thought the 2008 election of the first Black president signaled a sea change in white Americans’ attitudes about race, but that was far too cheery a view.
In the case of the recent SpaceX case, commissioners made bone-headed political comments about Musk in rejecting the bid for more launches, naively handing him lawsuit fodder.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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