naif
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“Pillion” isn’t judgmental, but it also doesn’t expect Melling’s naif to like everything his partner orders him to do.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
Even at 78, he remained the wonderstruck naif with a goodness so powerful it could transport all of us into another dimension.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
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
Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would have been, enfant naif.
From Annette, the Metis Spy by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)
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