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
Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
She’s no ingénue, but the rise of Uzo Aduba has been nothing shy of meteoric.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
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
The invasion of Parliament, or what almost amounted to an invasion, was an affair of far greater importance than the abduction of an ingénue.
From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
