Naive

Asked whether Sheikh Abdullah was naive or tactless as a politician at crucial points, Zutshi said: “For someone who had been in politics for so long, rubbed shoulders with people like Sardar Patel, Nehru, Kripalani and Jinnah, he appears naive at times.

Instead, Trump took $8 million from Peterson Air Force Base for a Space Control Facility that was budgeted in 2018, but not yet spent, making Gardner look — take your pick — naive, cynical, naively cynical, cynically naive.

Concerning the origin of the term naive set theory, Jeff Miller says, "Naïve set theory (contrasting with axiomatic set theory) was used occasionally in the 1940s and became an established term in the 1950s.

Many users (and various dictionaries) consider the diaeresis optional in naive/naïve (because not necessary for the reader to recognize the word), and *na-ive draws attention to itself as a style that is simply never used (although comprehensible).

Aftab Bakhat, mitigating, said his client had been unbelievably naive and had admitted as much at the time of the offence.

Am I being hopelessly naive in calling for some balance and proportion in the RAAC debate — or is the narrative of Tory stinginess and incompetence so powerful that we might as well sit back and watch the exaggerations multiply?

A plain cheese pizza is a naive 4-year-old at her birthday party thinking she’s been given actual pizza.

At the time we were really bubbly young naive girls and people still think that’s our character now.

Bonnie had been repeatedly told to make sure that Rascal never got out because he was a naive two-year-old house cat, but he was already in the back garden, creeping up on a pigeon.

But Mr Whiteman told PA: 'Frankly the guidance provided to headteachers by the DfE yesterday is at best naive.

But those who hoped that new Mayor Brandon Johnson would return sanity to the city were woefully naive.

Contrariwise, Kagome is naive, but she's not nearly flawed enough to warrant how annoyed Inuyasha gets with her.

Det Garda Ford also agreed that Murphy was “not a mastermind” and “naive”.

Don’t be naive, the reason hh has demanded mining stops is because his whlte masters told him to do so and change things so that their multinationals control mining instead.

Duncan is described as "a young, naive but courageous knight," and meanwhile, Egg hides his identity from all those the duo encounter.

He explained the defendant had recently been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and had been assessed as kind-hearted and caring but naive.

Her inability to understand English may have been interpreted as naïveté, but Karine was far from naive.

However, later, she wondered if it was naive and if a platonic relationship was possible between ex-spouses.

I am aware I sound stupid & naive but no one else has done as much for the Territory since HLS and early RTO.

I hope you are naive and didn’t write this on purpose.