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Example sentences for: naive

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You're no longer enticingly innocent and desirable but boringly earnest, naive, and solemn.
Maybe I was being naive, since today the Times reports that 63 percent of citizens' complaints about police are ignored.
He's somewhere between naive and idiotic, agree panelists.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
Teaching a bunch of unsophisticated boys that this helpful little fiction is the gospel truth, that "men are driven to rape because their genes tell them to," as if we really knew why some men rape and others don't, as if we were in possession of the complete truth about human motivation, as if we had the information to say authoritatively, X occurs because of Y , is at best naive, at worst arrogant and irresponsible.