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ingénue

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She's a steely ingenue, a fair-faced heroine, a leading lady.

See also: the girl in the band, who is often the ultimate ingenue.

It established her at once as an unstagey ingenue—simple, unspoiled, unacquainted with the formulas and formalities of the world.

Cora was my ingenue opposite, it fell out, and so we played at love-making, while meeting coldly at the family dining table.

To the world in general she was still the big-eyed ingenue, learning to take her place in society.

The Heroine and Ingenue hold each other by the hand and take ballet steps in waltz time.

The girl was very pretty, in an appealing ingenue way, her type being of the clinging order.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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