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ingenue
noun as in innocent
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When I was younger, I got to play the ingenue, the object of desire.
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But her school had a traditionally beautiful ingenue who landed the leads.
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His nose twitches are as dramatic as an ingenue’s gasp.
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Pickett explains: "I wasn't really interested in her being an ingénue."
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All a male ingenue needed to do was smile and kiss the girl.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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