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‖ faux-naïf, n. and a.|fonaif|
[F. faux false + naïf a.]
A. n. A person who pretends to be simple or unaffected and adopts a childish or naïve manner.
B. adj.
a. Of a work of art: self-consciously or meretriciously simple and artless.
b. Of a person: affectedly simple or naïve; pretendedly ingenuous.
1941Fortune July 111 Gibbs..is a faux-naïf: he pretends to have no social graces. 1952W. Plomer Museum Pieces 28 Mother loves to pretend to be extremely simple. She's a fausse naïve. 1958Listener 3 July 31/3 As music, ‘Catulli Carmina’ uses the same naive technical procedures as the earlier ‘Carmina Burana’, but here they have degenerated into faux-naïf mannerism. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. p. ii/4 Faux-naïf pictures..the kind calculated to raise a snigger among grown-ups and fury in the young. 1961Times 13 May 5/2 That terrible affliction of the folk-singer, the faux-naïf. 1964G. Sims Terrible Door xxvi. 140 The fauxnaif would have been dumped..in Poole Harbour. 1970Times 18 Apr. p. iv/2 The language is faultlessly faux-naif—a recreation of the idioms of a child's thinking. |