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 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

All the way from starting as a young woman to each director that I worked with to knowing that I wanted to break out of that ingénue thing as quickly as I could.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

The first differs from its fellows only as being of the same class, but better; and the dialect of the ingénue Constance seems to have been thought interesting and pathetic.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George