See naïf on Wiktionary
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"sense": "one who is naive",
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"word": "абдал"
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"sense": "one who is naive",
"word": "ingenuo"
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"sense": "one who is naive",
"word": "saf"
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"sense": "one who is naive",
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}
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"expansion": "→ Malay: naif",
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"text": "→ Malay: naif"
},
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"2": "naïf",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: naïf",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: naïf"
},
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"name": "desc"
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],
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},
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"depth": 1,
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"1": "tr",
"2": "naif",
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"ref": "1923, Marcel Proust, translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, La prisonnière:",
"text": "Habituellement, on déteste ce qui nous est semblable, et nos propres défauts vus du dehors nous exaspèrent. Combien plus encore quand quelqu’un qui a passé l’âge où on les exprime naïvement et qui, par exemple, s’est fait dans les moments les plus brûlants un visage de glace, exècre-t-il les mêmes défauts, si c’est un autre, plus jeune, ou plus naïf, ou plus sot, qui les exprime !",
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