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
  • My naivety was expunged in my first few weeks on the job post-graduation.
    — Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Many on the right like to laugh at Kennedy’s naivety, saying berliner commonly refers to a jelly donut in West Berlin.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • Both sides will claim the moral high ground and criticize the naivety of opposing arguments.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Both sides will claim the moral high ground and criticize the naivety of opposing arguments.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Both sides will claim the moral high ground and criticize the naivety of opposing arguments.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Both sides will claim the moral high ground and criticize the naivety of opposing arguments.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • There is a poignant naivety to that, even if his devotional dance soon segues into a fight — all the more dazzling, of course, for being fought and won by a man in a skirt.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Sometimes, these declarations are the product of naivety; other times, it’s done for clicks.
    — Henry McIntosh, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That naivety has proved deadly to Florida’s native wildlife.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024

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