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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
Perhaps some ingenue residue clings to her despite her attempts to shake it off.
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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
She’s been the damsel in distress (Dead Calm, Far and Away), the femme fatale (Moulin Rouge, The Human Stain), the unknowable ingenue (Birthday Girl, Dogville), the witch (Practical Magic, Bewitched).
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
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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
She’s been the damsel in distress (Dead Calm, Far and Away), the femme fatale (Moulin Rouge, The Human Stain), the unknowable ingenue (Birthday Girl, Dogville), the witch (Practical Magic, Bewitched).
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
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Divine intervention comes in the form of Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel who helps transform the community for the better — though things take a turn when Dudley falls in love with the titular bishop's wife (Loretta Young).Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here, musical legends feel like flesh-and-blood figures, especially as Dylan navigates Seeger as the old-guard angel on one shoulder and Bob’s pen pal Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) as the rebel devil on the other.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Palestinians, Ukrainians, and countless others suffer in places where death stalks innocents.Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Just the lives of innocents and the future of media hanging in the balance, no biggie.Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
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In the eye-opening tell-all, Presley wrote that Jackson was a virgin when the two first got romantically involved in 1994.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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On Michael Jackson Lisa Marie claims her ex-husband Michael Jackson was a virgin.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Back when The County Buzz, a tax-exempt nonprofit, still had a functioning website in 2007, an IRS filing shows the fledgling organization that year raised only $122 – putting it $1,000 in the red.Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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In today’s noisy landscape, initial efforts to get a fledgling client noticed may fall short.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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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
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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 Dec. 2024.
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