naiveté
Example Sentences
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But Dougal’s naiveté does not preclude a sly sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
The central figure is Renia, from Poland, played with innumerable nuances, as her character evolves from naiveté to ruthless opportunism, by the off-Broadway stalwart Marin Ireland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Call it naiveté or just plain stupidity, but I showed up to my first day of class overconfident.
From Salon • May 25, 2025
Nor does she take the easy route of mistaking a young woman’s naiveté for passivity or victimhood, qualities that could scarcely be more absent from Spaeny’s intensely watchful performance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023
It was either an amazing feat of stubbornness or naiveté, I thought, for someone who had seen so much death and suffering to still believe so unconditionally that everyone was as stand-up as he was.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
