naively

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But it refers to naïvely thinking that we see the world more realistically or objectively than we really do.

From Salon • May 7, 2023

McDermott’s childhood memories are matched by naïvely excited music; the flotation tank, by a soporific étude; the simulated coma, by music so shapeless yet alluring that it could have been written by Satie.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

It’s the kind of naïvely dramatic proclamation one expects from 17-year-olds.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023

The artfully but naïvely biased mural aestheticized the racism, social inequality, and power inequities of colonial enterprise, a picture of what the scholar Edward Said called “orientalism.”

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Our correspondent naïvely says that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little children pretend—and even imagine themselves—to be.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker