ingenue
Example Sentences
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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.
A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
This woman should be smoking cigarettes in a Parisian cafe, not getting up to the bubbly mischief Van der Velden envisions for her ingénue.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
