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been naive
adjective
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated; against better judgement.
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But we have been naive.
Dorries, he acknowledged, had probably been "naive".
Their lawyers argued they had been naive and intimidated.
"They might have been naive," Wally scolds him.
We may have been idealistic, and we may have been naive.
But we may have been naive about how it might work".
Gore has been naive on Russia, but Bush might be even more roundheeled on China.
I'm sorry that Professor Glees thinks we must all have been naive, or traitorous.
I had also, perhaps, been naive about how personally many people would take this.
Roosevelt later privately admitted that he and Churchill had been naive and were tricked.
"It would have been naive to think the food bank alone is enough," Mamdani explains.
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