ingénue
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A thoroughly modern ingenue, Flora is determined to bring change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
He nearly lost a rare gig when the ingenue said he was too ugly.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025
Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, Gigi was a drama school nerd who turned to music when she realised she was "never going to be cast in the ingenue role".
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024
She started off as a country western ingenue from rural Pennyslvania, but has remade herself into a New York-dwelling icon of cosmopolitan sophistication.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2023
Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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