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  • Another piquant fact: the French word niais, which once had the same meaning as the English word, now means 'silly' or, in the words of Larousse, 'simple, un peu sot'.

    languagehat.com: EYAS. 2004

  • Ca casse le truc t'as tout l'monde qui cause et la hop ca arrive sur toi, bon tu choisis ce que t'as a dire et hop tu vois juste ton perso qui sourie comme un gros niais ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Mon personnage fait niais, la cameras est fixe, le magasin de rune est bien a l'ouest de la ville, Ferid a la classe, Georg a a moitié la classe, et moi j'ai les cheveux gris!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Mais bon c'est tellement jouissif un jeu avec des truc triste et une fin merdique loin des truc niais tout rose bonbon!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • They were written rather en noir than couleur de rose by an experienced, and, we might almost perhaps say, a disillusioned traveller, and not by a naif or a niais.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • It's EYE-as, and the etymology turns out to be worth knowing as well: Middle English eias, from an eias, alteration of *a nias, an eyas, from Old French niais, from Latin ni:dus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots AHD.

    languagehat.com: EYAS. 2004

  • CaD sourire niais et gentillesse a la con juste pour faire plaisir!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004

  • 'Il fut administé, parceque le niais demandait un prètre, puis pende à la satisfaction generale,' etc, etc.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Un homme très niais disait qu'il n'avait pas de confiance dans la vaccine.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • But narrow minds grew there more narrow; they remained, as Rabelais will say later, foolish and silly, dreaming, stultified things, "tout niais, tout rêveux et rassotés."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

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