naivete

I saw a lot of good people argue for hateful interpretations of the Bible at Biola out of naiveté.

So while people may think they’re being both economical and plausibly classy by quaffing the second-cheapest Chardonnay, they’re actually getting stiffed for their naiveté, which is doubly embarrassing.

It’s easy to think about ancient civilizations and chalk up their failures to naiveté.

Charges of naivete, cluelessness, and “nonsense demagoguery” were hurled back and forth.

Our naivete would soon force me to make a decision that would tip the balance of the campaign.

In our naivete, we sometimes go rushing in where angels fear to tread.

The program began to teeter under the weight of its own outsized expectations, questionable staffing decisions, and naivete.

At times the optimism bordered on naivete, suggesting possible conflicts down the road.

He responded at once by presenting himself at her home with all his disarming naivete.

In the vulgar contrast one overhears the considerable naivete that animals have instinct and man, intelligence.

For the Japanese temperament is ever on the verge of a smile which breaks out with catching naivete at the first provocation.

Padre Esteban for an instant was himself embarrassed; Mrs. Brimmer quickly recovered her usual bewildering naivete.

Oliver, puzzled by his naivete, assured him that such things were not uncommon—not at least in Mob Territory.