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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
Inside, there’s an eclectic mishmash of fan art, memorabilia, Grammys and awards of all sorts strewn about; paintings of a smiling Dolly Parton and an ingenue Audrey Hepburn; and there is a back room with a collection of guitars reaching into the hundreds, an obsession of his.
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Josh Brolin, Billboard, 29 May 2025
Ortega is set to star as the ingenue pool hall amateur who learns the ways of lifelong pool hustler De Niro.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
The one-time ingenue made gallows humor out of her ruination, glorying in the cracks and croaks of her voice.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
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Josh Brolin, Billboard, 29 May 2025
Ortega is set to star as the ingenue pool hall amateur who learns the ways of lifelong pool hustler De Niro.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
These hopes and expectations betrayed the innocence of ingenues.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
The one-time ingenue made gallows humor out of her ruination, glorying in the cracks and croaks of her voice.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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The shepherds were visited by an angel and guided to the infant king.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Showrunner Tony Tost was truly an angel, and everyone on board were such freak-ass nerds about TV and cinema, and were so excited to share all these reference points with me, like Colombo.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Leave the innocents, the children, the ones who just want to live a simple life, out of the bombing and destruction.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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No acknowledgment of the innocents — including U.S. citizens — swept up in some of the Trump administration’s indiscriminate raids.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The colonized lands are conceptualized of as virgin or empty, or populated by savages and barbarians who amount to less-than-human types who must make way for the settlers.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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Hotlines in Ecuador and Argentina The statue of a virgin, la Virgen del Panecillo, looms over the city of Quito, the capital of Ecuador.—
Marta Martínez,
NPR,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Schumer marveled at the camera sweeping from the golden fields to the blue sky, symbolizing the fledgling Superman’s look toward the future.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
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Set to open its doors in 2026, the future Wisconsin Film Office has a business side to its pitch – but Deming describes more of a seed fund for a fledgling indie film scene.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.—
John Archibald,
Southern Living,
25 May 2025
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The indestructible Gill, still strolling the fairways of the magazine, was more than welcoming to a greenhorn.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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 Jul. 2025.
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