Like me, Post garden editor Adrian Higgins began his career as a passionate naif.
From the washingtonpost.com
Some doubters have ridiculed it as the National Almost Ignition Facility, or NAIF.
From the nytimes.com
She was more of a naif than either her appearance or her poetry suggested.
From the sltrib.com
The proceeds paid down borrowings on the NAIF warehouse line of credit.
From the foxbusiness.com
That woolly assertion contributed to the impression that he was a naif on foreign policy.
From the time.com
One sounds like an inflexible hard-liner and the other like a naif.
From the washingtonpost.com
Too bad Luke, for all his feigned sophistication, is a naif at love.
From the thenewstribune.com
Your other comments are what I believe is called faux-naif in French.
From the guardian.co.uk
This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif.
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A naive or inexperienced person
Naive: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
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