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.
• The three of us aren’t naive about the challenge of the work ahead.
  — Gov. Spencer Cox, Gov. Wes Moore, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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 Ukrainians were never naive in their overtures to the Trump team.
  — Simon Shuster, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Last year, the Jets were naive to believe Rodgers would solve all of their issues.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
• 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
• To think anything else is quite naive, to put it nicely.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• 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
• Dickie is aloof and naive, a trust-fund baby who’s had the world handed to him.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The department staffed its call center based on what seems like a naive projection of demand.
  — Cory Turner, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• This race is not actually about who is more eloquent or who can tell the truth better or more, and that feels a little bit naive at this point.
  — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024