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• But they fed what they saw as raw, unguarded essentialism into work that was anything but naive.2015 June 17, Rachel Spence, “Henri Rousseau: Archaic Candour, Palazzo Ducale, Venice”, in Financial Times. From the entry essentialism
• But Grayling’s enthusiasm and conviction should not be confused with naive whiggishness.2015 March 22, Julian Baggini, “The Soul of the Marionette by John Gray; The Challenge of Things by AC Grayling – review”, in The…. From the entry whiggishness
• On introduction of the parasite into immunologically naive mouse populations, the impact was dramatic (Fig. 4.9).2013, G.W. Esch, J.C. Fernandez, A Functional Biology of Parasitism, →ISBN. From the entry immunologically naive
• U R so very stompable and so very naive and so very very dumb.2001 August 21, Curbstomp, “More proof Pedophile idiocy”, in alt.fan.air (Usenet). From the entry stompable
• The dynamically naive would be worrying about the "chicken or egg" of this causal process.1993, Nordal Åkerman, editor, The Necessity of Friction, Physica-Verlag, →ISBN, page 287. From the entry chicken or egg
• In retrospect, Sǒ's unqualified championship of the elective principle may seem somewhat naive.1991, Vipan Chandra, “Korean Human-Rights Consciousness in an Era of Transition: A Survey of Late Nineteenth-Century Developments”, in…. From the entry émigré
• They look for girls that are wholesome and fresh and young and naive.1983, Teresa Carpenter, Bob Fosse, Star 80, spoken by Dorothy Stratten. From the entry girl next door
• The naive realist does not think of the antithesis between sensation and reality as the idealist does.1918 July, James H. Hyslop, “Predicaments in Philosophy”, in The Monist, volume 28, number 3, Chicago: Open Court, →OCLC, page 367. From the entry naive realist
• Senator Hontiveros does not strike me as a naive politician.2025 September 5, Van Ybiernas, “The most dangerous forms of corruption are subtle and below the radar”, in The Manila Times, retrieved 07…. From the entry inutile
• Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life.2018, Matei Calinescu, “Epilogue: Zacharias Lichter and His Biographer”, in Adriana Calinescu, Breon Mitchell, transl., The Life and…. From the entry Don-Quixotic
• I confess that I was unsmartly naive.2014, Hooseo B. Park, The Eight Answers for Happiness, page 101. From the entry unsmartly
• Yet, many academics approach Bhutan with a prior knowledge of Tibet and often show a naive tendency to Tibetanize Bhutan.2013, Karma Phuntsho, The History of Bhutan, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Random House India, →ISBN, page xii. From the entry Tibetanize
• This they did, Paul says, when by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.2012, Colin G. Kruse, Paul's Letter to the Romans, →ISBN. From the entry smooth talk
• Embracing difference or culturally ascribed abjection with the aim of overcoming or dissipating it would be both naive and ineffective.2009 September 10, W. C. Harris, Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry abjection
• Cloning body parts was again just man's search for immortality riding on the back of naive altruistic medicinal benevolence.2006, Adair Broughton, Crossing the Bridge of Infinity, page 40. From the entry a bridge too far
• Naive realism might ask today: Tell me what space is in itself, not in terms of other things.1992 November, George Zebrowski, Marvin Mattelson, “The Enigma of Distance”, in Omni, volume 15, number 2, page 80. From the entry gluon
• For it is hard to see, in the naive realist account, how it is possible for us ever to make mistakes.1982, Peter Y. Windt, An Introduction to Philosophy, St. Paul: West Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 503. From the entry naive realist
• Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.1980, Inside Sports, page 106. From the entry semi-naive
• Uncritical reading and inappropriate intellectual endeavor were frequently satirized in the form of a naive or Quixotic lady.1980, The Durham University Journal, page 234. From the entry quixotic
• This style of coiffure gives to the grown child a chic appearance and naive insouciance that is very fascinating.1915 February, “Told in the Boudoir: Concerning Coiffures in General and in Particular”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair…. From the entry chic
• Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club. From the entry rose-colored glasses
• A key element of mediamacro is the naive assumption that higher government borrowing is inherently dangerous and that lower borrowing is always praiseworthy.2018 November 4, Ben Chu, “We need to learn that the real economic gamble is sometimes too little government borrowing – not too much”, in…. From the entry mediamacro
• Maybe I was naive in thinking that baking with fizzy juice (soda, ginger, pop, whatever your regional name for the stuff is!) would be straightforward.2016 January 7, Amy, baking with granny.co.uk. From the entry ginger
• Le bon sens served Voltaire well: it enabled him to discredit much clerical propaganda and a good many naive and pedantic absurdities.2013, Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press…. From the entry oxblood
• Animal experiments show that repeated inhalation of an allergen by immunologically naive rat pups usually results in a transient low-level IgE antibody response.2013, Judah A. Denburg, Allergy and Allergic Diseases: The New Mechanisms and Therapeutics, →ISBN. From the entry immunologically naive
• They find the human moral concepts of "do not fire until fired upon" and "declare a war before prosecuting it" incredibly naive.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Military Doctrine Codex entry. From the entry preemptive strike
• Since then I've seen it as my duty to warn naive writers of the dangers of the fee-charging agents and the pay-to-play vanity presses.2006 June 30, James D. Macdonald, “Yog's Law”, in SFF Net, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2006. From the entry Yog's Law
• The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.1999, R. Ahmed, Irvin Chen, Persistent Viral Infections, page 337. From the entry revertent
• He effectively balanced his dichotomous view between the extreme of naive idealization of Americans and their culture and villanization of the United States.1994, Mary M. Hirthe, Memories are made of this: R.W. Fassbinder's BRD-Trilogy as decadent history. From the entry villanization
• Presumably, if a naive haecceitist grasps a haecceity of an external object in this way, then he can know that he grasps this haecceity.1993, G[ary] S. Rosenkrantz, Haecceity: An Ontological Essay [Philosophical Studies series; vol. 57], Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic…. From the entry haecceitist
• Obeying laws was for naive fools.1988, Macabee Dean, The Ashmadai Solution: A Surrealistic Extrapolation of a Gentle Genocide. From the entry loophole
• Naive methods and resolute laymanship go hand in hand, both obstructions in the pursuit of truth, blocks in the road of inquiry.1979, R.M. Martin, Pragmatics, Truth, and Language. From the entry laymanship
• They exude a naive zest: coatings of detail, poured like thick chocolate sauce over a mingy scoop of vanilla ice, distract attention, criticism, distrust.1973 June 9, Peter Preston, “Frederick Forsyth interview: ‘I’ve always been a loner’ – archive, 1973”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian…. From the entry ice
• Within a month the Michigan mudkicker found her new master and the naive young pimp was stuck with a brace of howling crumb crushers.1971, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry mudkicker
• Why is the wildest, willfullest daydream (which may be quite banal) no less than the most naive and flabby documentary welcomed, sometimes, with equal fervor?1967, Parker Tyler, “Is Film Criticism Only Propaganda?”, in Gregory Battcock, editor, The New American Cinema: A Critical Anthology, New…. From the entry willful

Meaning of naive

1. adjective Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
2. adjective Not having been exposed to something.
3. adjective Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

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How do you use naive in a sentence?

Naive is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The salarians believed the genophage would be used as a deterrent, a position the turians viewed as naive.”

What is a short sentence with naive?

“Obeying laws was for naive fools.”

What does naive mean?

Naive means lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.