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naive
Part of speech: AdjectiveArtless; frank; simple; as, naive manners.
Part of speech: Adverb Usage examples "naive":- Mrs. Keith had a trace of the grand manner, which had its effect on Harding; he showed a naive frankness she found attractive. - "Blake's Burden", Harold Bindloss.
- Nor had they apparently for the most part much trouble with electors, who, finding uncertainty distasteful, passionately desired to be assured that the country could at once be saved by little yellow facts or little blue facts, as the case might be; who had, no doubt, a dozen other good reasons for being on the one side or the other; as, for instance, that their father had been so before them; that their bread was buttered yellow or buttered blue; that they had been on the other side last time; that they had thought it over and made up their minds; that they had innocent blue or naive yellow beer within; that his lordship was the man; or that the words proper to their mouths were 'Chilcox for Bucklandbury'; and, above all, the one really creditable reason, that, so far as they could tell with the best of their intellect and feelings, the truth at the moment was either blue or yellow. - "The Patrician", John Galsworthy.
- Montefiore entered, palpitating, but he recognized in the expression of the girl's face complete ignorance of her peril, a sort of naive curiosity, and an innocent admiration. - "Juana", Honore de Balzac.