NAIVE in a Sentence
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43 example sentences for NAIVE, such as:
1. Their approach to life is refreshingly naive.
2. They naively assume things can only get better.
3. She was young, naive, stimulated by the coolness.
4. It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.
5. Carol was an amusing, naive, curiously learned child.
2. They naively assume things can only get better.
3. She was young, naive, stimulated by the coolness.
4. It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.
5. Carol was an amusing, naive, curiously learned child.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of NAIVE
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naive
a. lacking information or instruction
a. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 Captain Randall and the occupants of the carriage smothered smiles at this naive explanation of rifle pits.
2 The streets were black with loafing negroes who leaned against walls or sat on the curbing watching vehicles go past with the naive curiosity of children at a circus parade.
3 She was young, naive, stimulated by the coolness.
4 If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.
5 Carol was an amusing, naive, curiously learned child.
6 She was humbled by his humility; she put away in her mind, to take out and worry over later, a speculation as to whether it was not she who was naive.
7 Lena's candid eyes, that always looked a little sleepy under their long lashes, kept straying about the cheerful rooms with naive admiration.
8 She looked about her with the naive curiosity I remembered so well.
9 Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
10 Thus in the course of the campaign he handled many hundreds of dollars of the Hebrew brewer's money, administering it with naive and touching fidelity.
11 Her whole face was positively beaming at that instant with naive, almost childish, triumph.
12 Pierre looked over his spectacles with naive surprise, now at him and now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind.
13 "Ah, your excellency," put in Zherkov, his eyes fixed on the hussars, but still with that naive air that made it impossible to know whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest.
14 Pierre looked at Rostopchin with naive astonishment, not understanding why he should be disturbed by the bad composition of the Note.
15 He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.
Example Sentence:
1 Their approach to life is refreshingly naive.
2 It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.
3 It would be naive of us to think that football is only a game.
4 He is naive, simple, and guileless; he cannot be guilty of fraud.
5 Sophisticated and cynical, Jack could not believe Jill was as artless and naive as she appeared to be.
6 Amrozi naively admitted his role in the attack, they said, but the law needs more than confessions, it needs evidence.
7 They naively assume things can only get better.