naively

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He was astonished, naively, and he suffered from her antipathy to them.

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  • Obama has a big imagination, and his vision of the world is (naively) gigantic. —  Latest Articles
  • Personally, I think our reaction is ultimately based on the fact that we don't as Canadians, have any really clear idea about why we're in Afghanistan, so this law regarding rape is a bit of revelation to those who believed, naively, that we we're there only to do good. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • I do the same thing with associations - make sure I can traverse the association naively, and assume that it will behave properly based on ActiveRecord's tests. —  Planet Ruby on Rails
  • Somewhat naively, Erin joined the women's movement. —  Home | Mail Online
  • So for me it's not that it isn't a problem, it's that people tend to look, I think naively, at there being somewhere else that's better, somewhere else that's stronger, somewhere else that's autonomous of the American empire, and I don't think that's true. —  Indybay newswire
 

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