Naively

Quick meaning: Naively is an adverb meaning In a naive manner.

Meaning

In a naive manner.

Example Sentences

They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.

When Trump's election pulled back the curtain on the rise of the far-right in America, I'd naively assumed the Jewish left would be vindicated.

There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.

At this point there may possibly be a few readers who naively expect that they will somehow be held exempt from this law of universal klutzhood. Not for them the indignities of life as a bungling beginner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include innocently, uninnocently, naifly, greenly, ignorantly, unlearnedly.

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