Definitions
In an innocent or overly trusting way.
Word origin
From naive + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“At this point there may possibly be a few readers who naively expect that they will somehow be held exempt from this law of universal klutzhood. Not for them the indignities of life as a bungling beginner.”
“There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.”
“They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.”
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01“Innocently”7 letters
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