ingenue
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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 eager cosmopolitan ingénue of the film stills is visible only in the rearview mirror.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
"There may be something in that," said Lavender carelessly; "but of course, you know, with a widow it is different; and Mrs. Lorraine never does go in for the ingénue."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
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