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

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

“It’s much more interesting to me than just playing a likable ingénue that, you know, everybody immediately can sort of get on board with,” she said.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

This self-analysing ingénue is the only woman’s character in the whole of Gilbert’s dramatic work.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin