naïve
Example Sentences
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"This is a rollercoaster of a season. You can't be naive to think this is going to be easy," said England international Rice.
From Barron's
“I’d be naive to say I didn’t move the meter,” he said.
Before, I was naive enough to believe it was real.
From Literature
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“I was pretty naive to the bigness, the vastness of it,” Shiffrin said of her first Games in 2014 on a recent episode of her podcast.
She told the website she had been "incredibly naive".
From BBC
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