Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
1I'm not an absolute fool about technology: a determinist or militant naif.
2The only word which describes the Norman style is the French word naif.
3Always an avid collector of paintings, he liked the primitive and the naif.
4Being a lump of simplicity, his sceptism was as naif as his enthusiasm.
5To all these naif little souls, Joffre seemed like St. George crushing the dragon.
6His efforts were often presumed to be naive or faux naif, but weren't actually either.
7And finally, you have the robot as childlike naif.
8This is what Demelza is good at: faux-naif.
9The phrase "without interference" is that of a political naif.
10Yet the old fellow was so naif and direct that his speech left no evil taste.
11Her naif rhapsodies on the meeting are refreshing.
12Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would have been, enfant naif.
13She was puzzled, too, that Paul should be so obviously pleased with the rather naif adoration.
14His basic thesis is that he was a blameless naif, thrust into the maw of an evil sport.
15There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery-thissimple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny
16Bridget Jones is faux-naif rather than naive, of course, and Helen Fielding is in fact a perfectly smart contemporary writer.