ingenue
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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
The last verse, and the album's closing words, are addressed to pop music's next young ingénue.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
She’s no ingénue, but the rise of Uzo Aduba has been nothing shy of meteoric.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
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
But, as she had to play an ingénue, aged eighteen, in The Great Unknown, she was not quite convincing.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various
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