How to Use naivety in a Sentence

naivety

noun

• Look, again, this isn't coming from a place of naivety.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 11 Mar. 2018
• Shocked by his disrespect and naivety, Raq slaps the daylights out of Kanan.
  — Kyesha Jennings, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
• That soundtrack has this young naivety to it – but also a sense of glamour.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 2 Aug. 2022
• True love is a wise change agent that leans on the better angels without naivety.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• Norwich have won only two games so far, and their naivety will send them down.
  — SI.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• The duo’s naivety, says Williamson, was what led them to relentlessly forge ahead.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2022
• Her witty lines, lust for LL Cool J, and naivety stuck to your ribs long after your first watch.
  — Niki McGloster, refinery29.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• Yes, their youthful naivety and shallow squad depth can still show up now and again, but the only way is up.
  — SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• This award-winning film is about the naivety of childhood, love torn apart by conflict, and regret.
  — Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2022
• Generally, there seems to be a view that ethics is somehow akin to naivety.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Gladys, on the other hand, was handed everything on a silver platter, and there’s a bit of naivety to her.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022
• As my exit visa failed to materialise, my naivety dawned on me.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• Both sides will claim the moral high ground and criticize the naivety of opposing arguments.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• But Kitsch brings a certain slyness to the role, in which Carter’s seeming naivety hides a watchful intuition.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
• Before writing the film, Smith and Baynham were alarmed by children’s naivety around Big Tech agendas.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
• On the other hand, there may be a certain naivety associated with a mind that is too fixed or too rigid.
  — Josephine Kant, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• Ellie was a young fashion student coming from a small town to London for the first time and with lots of naivety and hope and excitement for what's to come.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• But the wider public associates such nuance with naivety.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
• The cheerful, topknot-wearing cherub is more likely to invoke thoughts of whimsy or naivety.
  — USA Today, 13 Aug. 2020
• Just lose weight reveals a naivety that borders on proud ignorance — a denial of what so much science tells us now.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 12 Nov. 2019
• The casting of first-time actor Jade Springer in the title role gives the film a sense of youthful naivety and aids the narrative’s authenticity.
  — Caitlin Quinlan, Variety, 15 Aug. 2021
• My lack of common sense was a result of my naivety about the situation; (redacted) lack of common sense led him to orally rape me.
  — Jacqueline Lee, The Mercury News, 16 May 2017
• Sure, there was some naivety, and certainly some profligacy at the start, but their tails were always up, and in an atmosphere as charged as this, that was no mean feat.
  — SI.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• In body and soul, the formidable strength of Hercules meets a dash of Jethro Bodine’s affable naivety.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• In body and soul, the formidable strength of Hercules meets a dash of Jethro Bodine’s affable naivety.
  — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• Not just off the pitch but on it too, Arsenal are the bunt of all jokes currently, as Wenger demonstrates a naivety and arrogance to not change his tactics or beliefs.
  — SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Thanks to Beckham's hot-headed naivety and Simeone's cynicism, England were now in a dire predicament.
  — SI.com, 17 May 2018
• Filled with novelty, nerves and naivety, these young Americans take the field against Wales on Monday night in a match a growing fanbase back home has been pining for since 2014.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2022
• Then there's the true-to-life nostalgic musings of romantic naivety at fifteen and unrequited love looming on the high school bleachers.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
• The problem is that expecting everything to go according to plan straddles the line between optimism and naivety.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024