naivete
IPA: nɑivʌtˈeɪ
noun
- Alternative spelling of naïveté [Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.]
Examples of "naivete" in Sentences
- His attitude was impatience and naivete.
- That's somewhere between anarchy and naivete.
- In a show of youthful naivete, the band agreed.
- No claims of naivete will be accepted thereafter.
- I agree with you as to the naivete of Jimbo's comments.
- Electricity is totally unforgiving of naivete or misunderstandings.
- I appologize for the inconvenience and my naivete as a contributor.
- I agree that he has made bad moves on the islandbut not from naivete.
- It was, I think, rooted in naivete, gullibility, and poor scholarship.
- By the 1990s we have lost our naivete about technological development.
- Knowing today what would soon to become of Germany thereafter, their naivete is chilling.
- When Jenn made her post, replete in naivete and bluster, I understood where she was coming from.
- Clinton's critique of Obama's foreign policy naivete is based on two things he said last summer.
- Clunky naivete is the hallmark of generic science fiction such as Laurence Gonzalez's novel "Lucy."
- Any attempt by us lowly hoi polloi to influence an “executive” decision is the ultimate in naivete and a ridiculous waste of time and effort.
- The no-driving thing, for one, and the fact that he "got the Internet" only two years ago, and he phrases it that way, too -- "Got the Internet," the way parents "use the Google" -- though at times one wonders how much the naivete is shtick.
- Telling people who are outraged that their naivete is mockable is the moral equivalent of telling a teenager with a desire to become an artist that they're better off getting a secretarial job than trying for a scholarship, and they should plan for disappointment.