as in naive
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment
had an uncritical trust in the nation's leaders
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Recent Examples of uncritical
Any nonpartisan journalist or editor overseeing political coverage would balk at uncritical reporting on one side and full-on confrontation with the other.
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Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Anyone who has walked down Disneyland’s Main Street, USA; witnessed the Magic Kingdom’s Hall of Presidents; or visited Epcot’s American Adventure can see how Disney strives to present an uncomplicated, uncritical view of the nation and its leaders.
—Jared Bahir Browsh, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
Anyone who has walked down Disneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A., witnessed Magic Kingdom’s Hall of Presidents or visited Epcot’s American Adventure can see how Disney strives to present an uncomplicated, uncritical view of the nation and its leaders.
—Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
Elsewhere, the museum is neither apolitical nor uncritical.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
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But in the transactional world of Trump, Musk, and DOGE, the concept of career civil servants taking lower-paying, apolitical work to serve an intangible greater good is naive at best.—
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The idea sounds simple, even naive: Fix the money, fix the world.—
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This innocent man spent over three decades behind bars.—
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The story itself was a typically innocent Shirley Temple tale, in this a young girl who tries to reconcile her parents and her grandfather after her mother marries a Yankee.—
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Its simple style can be dressed up with your best evening wear or paired with casual outfits to be your next wardrobe staple.—
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Yellow is the simplest, and purple is the most difficult.—
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“Uncritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncritical. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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