ingenue

Example Sentences

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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.

From The Wall Street Journal

This woman should be smoking cigarettes in a Parisian cafe, not getting up to the bubbly mischief Van der Velden envisions for her ingénue.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rachel is taken with Gustav’s films, and the director sees a familiar spark of brilliance in the young ingenue.

From Salon

But her school had a traditionally beautiful ingenue who landed the leads.

From Los Angeles Times

His nose twitches are as dramatic as an ingenue’s gasp.

From Los Angeles Times