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naïf

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naïf [nɑːˈiːf]
adj & n
a less common word for naive
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For author and reader, that predicament—the naïf thrust into murderous History—was always potentially, or actually (autobiographically), his own.
The Western Front by Jonathan Liu / The New York Observer
The McCain campaign’s game is to paint their man as a battle-tested warrior-patriot and Obama as a nice enough naïf who has only fuzzy notions of what he wants to do as president and who’d be passively uncertain in a crisis.
McCain the Easy Winner at Saddleback, But Who Was Watching? by Steve Kornacki / The New York Observer
In reality, Carter and his campaign were anything but wide-eyed naïfs.
The Calculations of Barack Obama by Steve Kornacki / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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