How to Use naive in a Sentence

naive

adjective

• The plan seems a little naive.
• She asked a lot of naive questions.
• If you're naive enough to believe him, you'll believe anyone.
• I was young and naive at the time, and I didn't think anything bad could happen to me.
• Camille may be naive, but her heart is in the right place.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• These things get passed around via emails from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next.
  — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2020
• At the same time, the body’s production of naive cells slows down.
  — Sara Reardon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
• To expect the 99 percent to adapt to the 1 percent is naive.
  — Miguel Howe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 May 2017
• In this slang, a fruit was ripe for the picking, just like a naive person.
  — Joseph Lamour, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• The women knew the risks and were not naive about making adult videos, Sadock said.
  — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2019
• This is not a naive quest to solve all our problems at once.
  — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
• The Florida retiree with the naive worldview of a child.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Anyone who thinks a space trip is a run-of-the-mill, roller-coaster ride is naive.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Things are going a bit too well for Mia, who is more naive than her friend.
  — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
• Today, that view will seem to some naive and to many dated.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• America is at once too smart and too stupid to be that naive.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Declaring yet again that Ukraine must take the first step is both immoral and naive.
  — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• The chances seemed so remote at the time that his remarks were almost naive.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• That sounds naive to state it starkly, but that’s what we’re dealing with here.
  — Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 21 Dec. 2016
• Of course, there are perilous rapids and black bears ready to do the naive, risk-taking humans in.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
• That set off a firestorm of debate about use of the trading app by young or naive investors.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2020
• Call me naive, but this whole concept is tough to fit into my brain.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
• Perhaps not so brazen and uncaring, but naive to what the world could be like.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
• Of course, their views on physics, and science in general, ranged from naive to wrong.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2017
• But to call you a drug dealer here, with that same reverence, is naive, out of touch.
  — Nadia Bowers, Time, 19 May 2018
• Coming from someone else, some of those words might seem naive.
  — Mary Schmich Chicago Tribune (tns), Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
• Gift registries are so common now that the very idea of deferring to the donors’ ideas is deemed naive.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• But as this past week suggests, that question now sounds rather naive.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 22 June 2017
• One of those men fooled the naive Proffit into being the driver on a scam, and later held a gun to him.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• Loyalty is a naive concept that hit the showers, in many places for good.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024