naif
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Her persona is part space alien, part naïf of some Baltic backwater.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
One of the greatest tragedies of the Messenger is a hypothetical left unfulfilled: What could someone who wasn’t a complete naïf have done with a $50 million investment in a media company?
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2024
When the former heel of “The View” broached the topic near the top of her new podcast’s third episode the naïf in me wondered if he’d answered those questions.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2023
Not quite the naïf he plays onscreen, Paul America was evidently the first Warhol superstar to be paid, a feat so notable it was reported in The Times.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022
La Fontaine, like Goldsmith, was with his pen in his hand as shrewd and as deeply learned in human nature as without it he was simple and naïf.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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