faux naïf
/ˌfəʊ nʌɪˈiːf
/ /fo naif/adjective
Artificially or affectedly simple or naive: faux-naif pastoralism...
- The author doesn't present himself as something he is not: he does not exaggerate his knowledge of the country and he also steers clear of the irritating faux-naif persona favoured by some travel writers.
- The show featured the small, richly colored, faux-naif paintings on paper that the playwright completed between 1946 and 1956.
- A (perhaps the) central question, which divides modern readers into two camps, is how far style and content are really faux-naif and informed by humour and irony.
noun
A person who pretends to be ingenuous: the speaker in these stories sounds authentically ten years old, never lapsing into the coyness of the faux naif
Origin
From French faux 'false' + naïf 'naive'.
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with
- have had a drop too much
- have had a good innings
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have had one's chips
- have had one's (or its) day
- have it
- have it away (on one's toes)
- have it away (or off)
- have it both ways
- have it coming (to one)
- have it easy
- have it out
- have its (or one's) uses
- have it your (own) way
- have kangaroos in the (or one's) top paddock
- have kittens
- havel
- haveless