He believed, naively, that she would leave him her money. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She was astonished -- she was touched to the heart, by what she called naively the conversion of Jacqueline. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He recalls naively thinking: "Great, I can donate every year then". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And I would listen politely, almost naively, which is interviewers 'technique, and you get more information that way. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater] Reference
Having extended such a gesture, 'naively'as a First Lady she was used as propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [John Edwards Doesn't Exist. Why? Because He Just Doesn't.] Reference
Yet for two weeks, many of us continued to "naively" believe in these brave, young Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Kristen Breitweiser: Rooting for Egypt] Reference
And I said, you know, kind of naively to myself, you know we've forgotten about this in our culture and maybe it's a win. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006] Reference
I don't want him a bit, "cried Margot naively," but he will come! ". From Wordnik.com. [Big Game A Story for Girls] Reference
I thought, "naively," that Desire had forgotten Mary. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
"I can not endure hypocrites!" naively replied the worthy man. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"That is because she is jealous of you!" said Lenaieff naively. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Perhaps naively, I had expected condoms to be used instinctually. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
If the images have a flaw, it is that they seem so naively hopeful. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Paul Strand's Elegant and Unsettling Vision of Mexico Comes to the Bronx] Reference
Transportation for America hopes, perhaps naively, that giving people. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
He was astonished, naively, and he suffered from her antipathy to them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I was 12 years old and naively believed the sign was Joe's original idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Wore His Heart On His Shoes] Reference
I once naively thought that someday there might be a "solution" to the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Unending Japan Problem] Reference
They're depending on him, naively, to rein in his party's hard-charging far right. From Wordnik.com. [Dole's Virtual Presidency] Reference
As a newcomer, I naively asked for a dollar total of the projects he'd funded that season. From Wordnik.com. [What I learned reporting on Alaska's ??Uncle Ted' Stevens] Reference
This is an artist testifying, perhaps naively, his love for a wild and reckless lifestyle. From Wordnik.com. ['Straight to Hell': Hank Williams III Plays with Fire] Reference
Your friend naively boxed herself into a rigid, prefabricated version of her married life. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: She's pregnant, which might upset friend who wants to be] Reference
Mr. Netanyahu said there is a necessity for peace and he is trying sincerely, but not naively. From Wordnik.com. [Netanyahu: No Guarantee Talks With Palestinians Will Succeed] Reference
My black two-door snakes between them trying, perhaps vainly and naively, to get out of Texas. From Wordnik.com. [So Much Silence, So Much Space] Reference
I have naively assumed, until recently, that respect for the truth is deep in the DNA of Baptists. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Giberson, Ph.D: How Darwin Sustains My Baptist Search for Truth] Reference
Whenever he played the master, he succeeded with her; and, naively, he always ended by playing it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That naively believes that one's truth is impervious to any opposition offered by the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Byron Williams: The Best Hope Democrats Have Is Republican Chaos] Reference
The war's naively grand promise — "to make the world safe for democracy" — also left people cold. From Wordnik.com. [The War We Forgot] Reference
I naively thought that this would be easy — purpose was going to magically spill out of me, ready to live. From Wordnik.com. [Finite Automatons in Winter Quarter] Reference
"If you look at the video and you'll see Gunter is stamped on and I think he's reacted very naively," Davies said. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd Sam strikes again to earn Leeds a point against Nottingham Forest] Reference
The remorse which Montfanon expressed so naively, once acknowledged to himself, increased rapidly in the honest man's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In short, these were hardly “hapless hikers” who naively walked into Iran as some in the media have tried to depict them. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Zunes: Hikers in Iran] Reference
Yet all the evidence seems to suggest two moderates, happy to brand themselves as such, who wandered naively into a hornets 'nest. From Wordnik.com. [Feisal Rauf: Ground Zero's lightning rod] Reference
Reality is neither this, nor that; it is way, way too complex to be boxed into naively oversimplified categories of "good" or "bad.". From Wordnik.com. [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Livewise] Reference
Mother no longer told us stories of fairy children, talented but imperfect, naively fighting to right wrongs and protect the innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
In his late twenties and early thirties, the sometimes serious writer arrived at what he naively thought was his adult-life's destination. From Wordnik.com. [The Sometimes Serious Writer and His Ass] Reference
Some observers naively expected the price to drop when a new version, made in genetically engineered hamster cells, hit the market in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Most Expensive Drugs] Reference
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