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Բé
[ nah-eev-tey, -ee-vuh-tey, -eev-tey, -ee-vuh- ]
noun
- the quality or state of being naive; natural or artless simplicity.
- a naive action, remark, etc.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Բé1
Example Sentences
They made themselves economically vulnerable to the United States not out of naivete, but because they trusted us not to act arbitrarily or vindictively.
Han knows he must exaggerate Min’s daffy naivete to get us to buy into his zeal to live in a small shack with noncommittal Chris.
With one foot in either place, we’re pulled between the impish naivete of childhood — when the future seemed vast and bright — and the doldrums of adulthood.
Cynicism is also accompanied by naivete in Washington, where Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. — having watched his Republican colleagues deny the outcome of an election and defend the man who encouraged a mob to march on the U.S.
Indeed, Bailey looks back at “That’s the Way of the World” as an album about “the loss of Բé” experienced by the band’s members, all of whom were in their early 20s at the time except for Maurice White, who was a decade older.
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