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or ingénue
as in angel
an innocent girl or young woman
In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.
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Recent Examples of ingenue
In swinging 1960s London, when films featured fresh mini-skirted ingenues such as Julie Christie and Redgrave, Smith stood apart.
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
Perhaps some ingenue residue clings to her despite her attempts to shake it off.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
In another world, a prestige Hollywood production of Othello, starring Robeson, with Jose Ferrer whispering into his ear as Iago, and a gutsy young screen ingenue — Julie Harris?
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
However, the ambitious ingenue sees Trigorin, Arkadina’s lover, as a more useful stepping stone.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
Perhaps some ingenue residue clings to her despite her attempts to shake it off.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
In another world, a prestige Hollywood production of Othello, starring Robeson, with Jose Ferrer whispering into his ear as Iago, and a gutsy young screen ingenue — Julie Harris?
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
However, the ambitious ingenue sees Trigorin, Arkadina’s lover, as a more useful stepping stone.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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This organizer comes in three stylish colors to choose from: avocado green, angel white, and olive green.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2025
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Sheila’s chambers were decorated with pictures and figurines of angels.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Al-Qaeda’s attack on Sept. 11, 2001, which murdered about 3,000 innocents of every race, background and socio-economic class, left him somewhere between agnostic and satisfied.—
Jeff Robbins,
Boston Herald,
14 Oct. 2024
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As the creature prepares to attack the innocents, it is bound by a familiar orange magic as the Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Strange (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes) appears.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The emperor provided Xu Fu with ships and the 3,000 virgins that the magician claimed were essential to the quest.—
Joe Kloc,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Cooper is very sweet about Kacey’s virgin status, and their kiss is cute, too, nose and all!—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Coyotes’ California Community College Athletic Association title added to the long and still-growing legacy of soccer in San Diego — a legacy that San Diego FC leadership hopes the fledgling organization can lead as the area’s highest-level team.—
Kyle Kensing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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Migratory ibises have a survival rate of between two and three fledglings per female, which is almost three times that of some nonmigratory populations.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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The author came to Canada from England in 1923 as a 23-year-old greenhorn.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
15 Aug. 2024
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Hence the herring, every greenhorn’s rite of passage on the Wizard.—
Ashley Boucher,
EW.com,
11 June 2024
Noun
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Smit-McPhee plays a hapless Scottish tenderfoot who teams with Fassbender's conflicted bounty hunter to track down his true love in the American West.—
and Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
21 June 2024
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The tenderfoot Americans, with six rookies, eight guys yet to reach 30, and minimal scar tissue, won three of four foursomes in the morning to get to 9-3 and two of four fourball rounds in the afternoon to reach 11-5.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Sep. 2021
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“Ingenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenue. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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