naif
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I know I sound like a real naif in 2026 talking like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Rogan, wearing his persona as a babe-in-the-woods naif, listened to this nonsense in slack-jawed stupefaction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 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
Bale’s performance is particularly hard to parse: It’s no surprise that he can so completely submerge his British accent to play a streetwise naif, but the accent and characterization become distractions.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Strange enough, and I confess it with naif delight, I did not feel at all afraid.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton
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