naive
I had always rather naively assumed that the public were respectful towards nurses and doctors.
I stupidly and naively forgot I was in front of a lot of cameras.
I naively trusted someone who I thought was an honest friend.
Naively, I turned up without a ticket, thinking it would be easy to get in.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Naive & trusting
be easy game/meatidiom
be easy preyidiom
be wet behind the earsidiom
butter
butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouthidiom
gull
idealistic
impressionable
ingenuous
ingenuously
prey
pushover
see things in black and whiteidiom
simple
soft touch
unsophisticated
unsophistication
unsuspecting
unsuspicious
wide-eyed

Examples of naively

naively
One could naively look at big rare-gas clusters as small pieces of bulk matter and thus may ask why they deserve special attention at all.
This capacity is almost naively attributed to the uncontrollable power of his prose and to the genius of his pen.
In both cases, we are thinking naively that 'the grass must be greener on the other side of the fence'.
Naively, then, we might conclude from (5) that agnosticism is the only rational choice.
This is what a social scientist learns at school, mocking the unwashed who naively believe in the moon.
Such expert systems use static or naively dynamic resource partitioning rules and do not attempt to quantify the resulting change in performance.
The problems of estimating resource usage in lazy functional languages, and the pitfalls of naively transferring intuitions developed in imperative programming are notorious.
Naively speaking, such systems are cocycles where the extra structure of the transitions allows us to compose linear maps at different points.
When used naively, search will not work on large examples due to search space explosion.
This leads to a fairly problematic image of liberation theologians as naively dogmatic and intellectually isolated from broader currents of the left in the 1980s.
Our initial objective was simply to make music out of dance - to create a hyperinstrument - to naively transform the dancer into a musician/instrumentalist.
This could be solved naively by restricting the rate of initiation of tasks.
Naively speaking, one tries to structure the dynamics using these points as a spine.
Naively, one might expect disease-associated mutations to stabilize the fibril structure, but it is unclear how the known mutations might do so.
The categorical products are exactly those naively defined below (to within isomorphism).
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