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Lacking savoir-faire
Answer for the clue "Lacking savoir-faire ", 4 letters:
naif
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Word definitions for naif in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French naïf , literally "naive" (see naive ). As a noun, first attested 1893, from French, where Old French naif also meant "native inhabitant; simpleton, natural fool."
Usage examples of naif.
Moreover, if an author set himself to invent the naif things that children might do in their Christmas plays at home, he would hardly light upon the device of the little troupe who, having no footlights, arranged upon the floor a long row of candle-shades.
Plato--which is as modern in feeling and phrase as anything done in Boston--in the naif and direct Herodotus, and, above all, in the King James vernacular translation of the Bible, which is the great text-book of all modern literature.
Then she had been a naif, a country girl running away from the pain of a bungled marriage and a vacant home.
Brom had become stylish enough to escape, and a naif was present to take over the job.
The drop in the dropper was like the black rain of NYC which was like the money shot in a porn film which was like the tears from the Balkan statuary of the Virgin in the naif style.
Oh, Devils and dung-lice, I’ve done it now, done it, and no other naifs coming to town soon enough.
Or true naifs, simpletons, those who would never learn the ways of the world, the eternally surprised, the perpetually astonished?