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naivete

[ US /nɑˌivəˈteɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. lack of sophistication or worldliness

How To Use naivete In A Sentence

  • Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
  • Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and A Desperate Character and Other Stories
  • He tries to buy one on the street, but his naïvete and lack of street sense only see him get scammed by con artists.
  • Without such a justification, is there a danger of having the work dismissed as pretension or posturing or, at worse, accused of naiveté?
  • This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on A Start in Life
  • The songs on the album prove meditative, probing, and soothing all at once; they comfort without slipping into naivete.
  • In her naiveté she had thought that all serious books were reviewed in the major newspapers, especially The New York Times.
  • In flashbacks he is hampered with the unhappy task of being the innocent amid these connivers, but a stronger actor might have been able to make naïveté more interesting.
  • Weege's draftmanship has a kind of precise naivete - an intentional primitivism that is at once accurate and sharply distorted.
  • This style of prothesis without apodosis is very common in Arabic and should be preserved in translation, as it adds a naïveté to the style. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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