Crossword clues for naively
The Collaborative International Dictionary
naively \na"["i]ve`ly\, adv. In a na["i]ve manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a naive manner. alt. In a naive manner.
WordNet
adv. in a naive manner; "he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money"
Usage examples of "naively".
He stretched out his legs as if he wished to elongate his satisfaction, and stared Domini full in the face with eyes that confidently, naively, asked for her approval of his doctrine of the sun.
The scapha, nigh immune to rocks no matter how close they rose to the surface of the water, closed as if naively on that beacon of treachery.
Not only was Natacha in the hands of the revolutionaries through his fault, by his abominable error, but worse yet, in the very moment when he wished to save her, he foolishly, naively, had conducted the police to the very spot where they should have been kept away.
Santek was no longer trying to raise the morale of the troops, as the chaplains in Bangkok had naively planned.
In so far as the concept 'force' appears in scientific considerations, it plays the part of an 'auxiliary concept', and what man naively conceives as force has come to be defined as merely a 'descriptive law of behaviour'.
This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings, which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space.
They may become fascinated and naively play around with the paranormal: palm readers, "fortune-telling" 900 phone numbers, astrology and horoscopes, Ouija boards, channelers, and occultic books.
After you came to the study and chattered naively about dropping the box of cigars, Mara called me out of the study to let me know something was missing.
The problem with most versions of communications theory is that they ignore this function, and naively present language as a means of transmitting information.
They are only macromutations if we look, naively, at the finished product, the adult.
It's a Latin that might have come directly out of the school of Cicero, but laced with a carefully measured dash of Church Latin -- and of course it's again impossible to tell whether that is intended naively as bait for us padres, or meant ironically, or simply springs from an irresistible impulse to playact, stylize, and embellish.