How to Use naive in a Sentence
naive
adjective
- The plan seems a little naive.
- She asked a lot of naive questions.
- If you're naive enough to believe him, you'll believe anyone.
- I was young and naive at the time, and I didn't think anything bad could happen to me.
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The three of us aren’t naive about the challenge of the work ahead.
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Gov. Spencer Cox, Gov. Wes Moore,
TIME,
5 Sep. 2024
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Camille may be naive, but her heart is in the right place.
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Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Oct. 2019
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These things get passed around via emails from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next.
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Tom Margenau,
Dallas News,
13 Sep. 2020
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At the same time, the body’s production of naive cells slows down.
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Sara Reardon,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Sep. 2021
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To expect the 99 percent to adapt to the 1 percent is naive.
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Miguel Howe,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
12 May 2017
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In this slang, a fruit was ripe for the picking, just like a naive person.
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Joseph Lamour,
Bon Appétit,
22 June 2022
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The women knew the risks and were not naive about making adult videos, Sadock said.
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Pauline Repard,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2019
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This is not a naive quest to solve all our problems at once.
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Katherine Sayre,
NOLA.com,
22 May 2017
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The Ukrainians were never naive in their overtures to the Trump team.
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Simon Shuster,
ProPublica,
23 Oct. 2019
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The Florida retiree with the naive worldview of a child.
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Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
31 Dec. 2021
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Anyone who thinks a space trip is a run-of-the-mill, roller-coaster ride is naive.
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Jim Clash,
Forbes,
16 June 2022
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Last year, the Jets were naive to believe Rodgers would solve all of their issues.
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Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2024
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Things are going a bit too well for Mia, who is more naive than her friend.
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Time,
7 Dec. 2022
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Today, that view will seem to some naive and to many dated.
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Washington Post,
9 Mar. 2021
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America is at once too smart and too stupid to be that naive.
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Nick Canepa Columnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Aug. 2020
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Declaring yet again that Ukraine must take the first step is both immoral and naive.
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Dmytro Kuleba,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2023
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The chances seemed so remote at the time that his remarks were almost naive.
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Scott Harrison,
latimes.com,
19 Oct. 2017
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To think anything else is quite naive, to put it nicely.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
31 July 2024
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That sounds naive to state it starkly, but that’s what we’re dealing with here.
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser,
21 Dec. 2016
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Of course, there are perilous rapids and black bears ready to do the naive, risk-taking humans in.
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Washington Post,
8 Apr. 2021
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Dickie is aloof and naive, a trust-fund baby who’s had the world handed to him.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2024
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That set off a firestorm of debate about use of the trading app by young or naive investors.
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David Z. Morris,
Fortune,
17 June 2020
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Call me naive, but this whole concept is tough to fit into my brain.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
16 May 2022
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Perhaps not so brazen and uncaring, but naive to what the world could be like.
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Lexi Pandell,
WIRED,
31 Aug. 2023
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This race is not actually about who is more eloquent or who can tell the truth better or more, and that feels a little bit naive at this point.
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Leah Feiger,
WIRED,
11 Sep. 2024
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That naive 24-year-old who walked into his father's office couldn't have imagined the adventure ahead.
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Ahmad Ashrafi,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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