naiveté
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“We are as keen and perhaps as committed as anybody on getting to complete denuclearization . . . Naivete is certainly not something that would characterize my government’s approach to North Korea.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2018
Naivete is a common trait, a crucial one in the case of Tatiana Romanova, deployed as bait in From Russia with Love.
From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012
Naivete, First words the first phonograph spoke were: Parks, Florida.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness.
From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Mackay, Constance D'Arcy
Eliza was "Naivete," from her artless manners; and me he called "Etheria," probably on account of my star-gazing and verse-writing habits.
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy
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Into the Wild
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