Crossword-Solution: NAIVELY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Naively | adv. | In a naive manner. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “NAIVELY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| How a babe does things | 1 answer |
| In an inexperienced way | 1 answer |
| Ingenuously. | 1 answer |
| Showing a lack of experience | 1 answer |
| With a lack of guile | 1 answer |
| Without sophistication | 1 answer |
| Without understanding the consequences | 1 answer |
| innocently | 2 answers |
| Without guile | 6 answers |
| A LACK OF SOPHISTICATION | 10 answers |
| foolishly | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NAIVELY (5)
Was not he, too--he thought naively--a poor Tarzan of the advertising jungle, lost among the elephants and alligators of commerce, and sighing for this dainty and unattainable vision of girlhood that had burst upon his burning gaze! He stole a perilous side-glance at her profile, and saw the racing flicker of the screen reflected in tiny spangles of light that danced in her eyes.
Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind.
The perils from which it had been his refuge became naively harmless: was it possible that he who now took his easy way along the levels had once preferred to gasp on the raw heights of emotion? Youth is a high-colored season; but he had the satisfaction of feeling that he had entered earlier than most into that chiar’oscuro of sensation where every half-tone has its value.
The modern builder, like the frugal binder, leaves the sides of his creations unadorned, and expends his ingenuity in decorating the narrow strip which he naively imagines will be the only part seen, calmly ignoring the fact that on glancing up or down a street the sides of houses are what we see first.
However, he was taken away a prisoner, Captain Gray mounting him on his own horse, though, as Turner naively remarks, ‘there was good reason for it, for he mounted himself on a farre better one of mine.’ A large coffer containing his clothes and money, together with all his papers, were taken away by the rebels.
Quotes with NAIVELY (3)
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.
When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).