Example sentences for: naiveté

How can you use “naiveté” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gallant's stories of men and women--and these include a few tales of trusting men let down by untrustworthy women--follow a basic pattern: Someone (possessing a naiveté perhaps reminiscent of the 27-year-old who ran off to Paris to write) offers someone else his or her love and is let down, but still manages to get up in the morning for the next several decades.

  • While proclaiming that the United States has finally lost its virgin naiveté about domestic terrorism, pundits scratched their heads over why the trial didn't mesmerize the nation the way the Simpson and Rodney King cases did.

  • Today, Kennedy scholars and debunkers can share a collective smirk at Manchester's naiveté, confident that 35 years and 500 books (by the Kennedy Library's rough count) have taught us all a thing or two; that our understanding of JFK, like the Kennedy literature itself, is rich, complex, ever expanding.

  • "A post ironic sensibility/naiveté."

  • The naiveté lies not in their answers but in the question.


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