Naif:
noun
- a naive or inexperienced person
adjective
- naive. [Dictionary.com]
Noted in “I helped write a speech defending a vote for Clarence Thomas. I regret it still,” Stephen Rodrick, WaPo:
I wasn’t a complete naif; I’d been farmed out to work on the promising congressional campaign of Mel Reynolds, a former Rhodes scholar, who lost a close race in Illinois’ 2nd District in 1990. I was briefly crushed. Then I watched Reynolds get elected two years later; not long afterward, he was convicted of multiple felonies including statutory rape and embezzlement.
