naively

Example Sentences

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Naively I had hoped you couldn't lose a baby that had taken five rounds of IVF to create.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2024

Naively, you might think this means the sun is teal!

From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2023

Naively, I had thought this sort of thing could not happen because I was an individual with rights.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

Naively, I had thought I could just slip it into his backpack, beside his construction truck lunchbox and mittens he kept losing, behind the drawings and finger paintings that kept getting crushed.

From Salon • May 25, 2022

Naively I told my mother that I did not have a pass, suggesting that the police would not take me away.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane