ingenue

Example Sentences

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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 • Dec. 6, 2025

The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

The younger women are the most vulnerable to this idealistic image people have for us to have it all figured out before the clock strikes 30, and we are no longer the young ingénue.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2023

All the way from starting as a young woman to each director that I worked with to knowing that I wanted to break out of that ingénue thing as quickly as I could.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

But Lydia, though the ingénue, is not the real heroine of this book: her aunt and her aunt's maid divide that position between them.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George