Meanings of naif in English

I'm not an absolute fool about technology: a determinist or militant naif.

The only word which describes the Norman style is the French word naif.

Always an avid collector of paintings, he liked the primitive and the naif.

Being a lump of simplicity, his sceptism was as naif as his enthusiasm.

To all these naif little souls, Joffre seemed like St. George crushing the dragon.

His efforts were often presumed to be naive or faux naif, but weren't actually either.

And finally, you have the robot as childlike naif.

This is what Demelza is good at: faux-naif.

The phrase "without interference" is that of a political naif.

Yet the old fellow was so naif and direct that his speech left no evil taste.

Her naif rhapsodies on the meeting are refreshing.

Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would have been, enfant naif.

She was puzzled, too, that Paul should be so obviously pleased with the rather naif adoration.

His basic thesis is that he was a blameless naif, thrust into the maw of an evil sport.

There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery-thissimple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny

Bridget Jones is faux-naif rather than naive, of course, and Helen Fielding is in fact a perfectly smart contemporary writer.