ingenue
Example Sentences
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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
She also found she was referencing the arc of an ingénue in a Jennifer Blowdryer book she nabbed in Silver Lake.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
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
And when she left here a year ago, she was just a fairly good ingénue.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
