ingenue

Example Sentences

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For Early it was also a chance to fulfill his longtime desire to play an old-school ingénue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

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

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

Not many French writers would express themselves as he does in the following:— "Et il tressaille de jumeler le nonchaloir de sa jeunesse au renouveau de la belle ingénue."

From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred