faux-naïf

She tackles weighty subjects with a naive sensibility and faux-innocence, but skillfully avoids dumbing them down.

"And you leave about your faux commencements, as M. Ballompre would call them, for us to stumble over," said Margaret.

A sledging cook will often make a disagreeable faux pas by extinguishing the primus in the preparation of hoosh.

Tilliard blushed, partly on account of the faux pas he had made last June, partly on account of the restaurant.

There was a faux air of a real married name about Mrs. Nightingale that was lacking in Mrs. Graythorpe.

In a strange house it would have been simply a faux pas, but he knows us well enough, and the arrangement between us.