Meaning of naifly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a naif way; naïvely.

Examples

“Lord Camell rattled constantly across—it preying excessively upon his fancies, that Emile should so let the “saison” slip-by—naïf'''ly expounding, “there was a time for all things”—stoutly asseverating, an occasional “scurry with the D⸺s” must eminently brace the moral tone of the understanding—and plighting himself to wholly forswear hunting, till gratified by the comradeship of his ancient brother of the chase.”

“Not the least curious incident connected with this Nizam matter is the naïf and naïfly expressed vexation of the Irish Nationalist papers.”

“There was a strong element of the child in this wild-looking fellow; and now he appeared most naïfly surprised and pleased to find that he was so clever as to be able to help in surveying-work.”

“Most of them are nonsense or mare’s nests, but now and then a profound secret slips out as naïfly as a child sometimes reveals a family skeleton.”

“Nevertheless, all this merited respect for an industrious and inoffensive man is bound, soon or late, to yield to a critical examination of the artist within, and that examination, I fear, will have its bitter moments for those who naïfly accept the current Howells legend.”

“They stood looking at each other for a moment. Curt Franklin’s eyes naïfly revealing his pleasure, and Gertrude consciously enjoying that revelation.”

“Harold was pertinacious if not determined in this doubtful enterprise, so naïfly undertaken.”

“‘For the Common Good of Ireland, and more especially of the Adventurers and Planters’, is a naïfly characteristic specimen of Parliamentary cant.”

“This “poem” is a storm brewed amongst sodden Typhoo-tips, in the dregs of a cracked Woolworth tea-cup, by an incorrigible moral charlatan, simpleton, or bore,—who has become immune from self-criticism through the public acceptance, nem con., of a piously truistic diffuseness which easily flatters and cozens the naĭfly self-regarding morale of a society in part too simple, in part intolerably smug.”

“For nothing is easier than to make one naïfly formed Morality the vantage point from which others are criticised.”

“He was almost naïfly delighted that Pat Conway had sent him a birthday card.”

“That first summer we were quite isolated and undisturbed, as no publicity had attended my buying and living at Jacob’s Pillow up to that time (I, naïfly, thinking it would always be used as a “retreat”).”

“To this day I am unable to think of M. de Charlus as anything but a man I should have loathed or to refrain from rejoicing naïfly in his discomfiture chez les Verdurins.”

“[…]Starbuck who joins the Communist party in his youth, but instead of dramatically changing the way society operates economically or socially, sends his best friend to jail when he naïfly names him as a known communist before Nixon’s Congressional Investigating Committee.”

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