ingenue

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In these images Sellers—a comic giant at the height of his career—acts as an eager paparazzo chasing after the self-assured ingénue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 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

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