(n.) Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although certain naivete about the likely panacea property of Cy occurred early, major adjustments in the original immunosuppressive protocol were required and included the use of rescue ATG, the measurement of Cy levels in the blood, the use of less Cy, and the perioperative avoidance of Cy.
(2) The prosecution of Ratko Mladic , who appears on Monday in The Hague, only serves to underline the organised naivete of the international community, and the infantile understanding of justice of one of its key instruments, the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
(3) Single women, regardless of sexual orientation, scored significantly higher on scales K and Pa and on the Pa subscale naivete.
(4) She revels in her naivete, as though by admitting her lack of City nous she is proving she is on the side of the people in the great battle between the pinstripes and the proles.
(5) Unperturbed by these and innumerable other illustrations of our fabled “yearning for democracy”, respectable commentary continued to laud President George W Bush for his dedication to “democracy promotion”, or sometimes criticized him for his naivete in thinking that an outside power could impose its democratic yearnings on others.
(6) Now Romney has told CBS's Face the Nation that Obama's "naivete" and "faulty judgment" about Russia has led to a number of foreign policy challenges.
(7) This appears to result primarily from the lack of memory T cells in the fetus and neonate, reflecting their antigenic naivete.
(8) A logistic model showed that impulsivity and adventurousness (high score in factor H), naivete and excessive trustfulness (low score in factor L), and poor self-control (low score in factor Q3) predicted significantly, and guilt proneness and depression (high score in factor O) almost significantly the subsequent occurrence of motor vehicle accidents.
(9) Finally, television commercials often capitalize on children's naivete, and also can foster and reinforce overly materialistic attitudes.
(10) Platell then goes on to blame the duchess for her own naivete in being caught out on a number of occasions in revealing shots.
(11) MMPI scores for items on the Harris and Lingoes (1955, 1968) subscales HY2 (need for affection) and PA2 (naivete) were compared among pedophiles (n = 50), non-sexually deviant psychiatric patients (n = 25), and a general control group (n = 50).
(12) Naivete is a common trait, a crucial one in the case of Tatiana Romanova, deployed as bait in From Russia with Love .
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SLB: There was a great sense of wonder, and a naivete, and a willingness on everybody’s part to do whatever it took.
(14) Their worldly wise cynicism is actually at best naivete and at worst dereliction.
(15) Arendt lacks Cohen's naivete, and sustained an important critique of the nation-state.
(16) His repeated claim that the racial fringe will be washed out by the political revolution to come is pure naivete.
(17) Six cases are described which show common features of recent pregnancy loss or infertility, psychological and medical naivete, social isolation, recent loss and membership in a cultural or religious group that focuses on childbearing as the central role of women.
(18) As a result of its immaturity, the addiction's field evidences energy, naivete, curiosity, intensely conflicting and polarized explanations of its identity and purpose, anomalous research findings, and few "facts."
(19) As for the claim of parody, "the Court finds such contentions to be post-hoc rationalisations employed through vague generalisations about the alleged naivete of the original, rather than reasonably perceivable parody".
Rube
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Only with follicular walls and capsules of corpora lutea was the step linear dose-response relationship similar to that shown by the uterine rube obtained by alternating current stimulation.
(2) The coin lesions of 361 patients who were at our diagnostic ward from 1968 to 1970 were defined according to Rube [1967].
(3) This conclusion, however, is opposite to that derived from experiments with partial neuromuscular blockade which demonstrated the importance of central command in determining the cardiovascular response to static exercise (Leonard, Mitchell, Mizuno, Rube, Saltin & Secher, 1985).
(4) In deciding not to hand control of his business to outside executives, Trump had created a “Rube Goldberg” device – an unnecessarily complicated machine for solving a simple problem – that was unlikely to serve its purpose, said Henning.
(5) From a total of 73 cultures isolated from glucose-1-phosphate roll rubes, only 15.1% were presumptively identified as Bacteroides species.
(6) That whole ‘trust me’ thing can be very debilitating, when you go, ‘I think I know how this can play.’ And also when you get a piece of material like [Gone Girl], it’s a lot of faith on the part of Ben Affleck to come in and go ‘Okay, I’m the rube.’” There’s no decision yet on his next feature.
(7) Small movies that will be great Listen up, you rubes.
(8) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
(9) We felt part of the momentum, rather than a parasite or a rube.
(10) By bringing them face to face, Gibson was addressing the tendency of any given generation to assume that “the inhabitants of the past are hicks and rubes, and the inhabitants of the future are effete, overcomplicated beings with big brains and weak figures.