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
The eager cosmopolitan ingénue of the film stills is visible only in the rearview mirror.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
She’s no ingénue, but the rise of Uzo Aduba has been nothing shy of meteoric.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
And is not my sister like an ingénue, who has played already all the five acts of her life?
From The Duel and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
