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
Banks: I had a similar experience coming up as an ingénue.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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
She was tired of being considered an ingénue.
From Quin by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
