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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by a false show of innocent simplicity.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : faux, false + naïf, naive.]

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