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Meanings of ingénue in anglès

An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve girl or young woman.

Usage of ingénue in anglès
1
And then the ingénue and then the one that it centers around.
Ebony
2
Annja shook her head and tried to make her eyes go ingénue-wide.
Provenance
3
The rôle of ingénue has long been vacant in our company.
The Bride of Dreams
4
Sirota's voice rang with passion, with pain and longing beyond an ingénue's years.
The bone palace
5
And the fiancé of the ingénue addresses her as 'Angel of this house!'
A Chair on the Boulevard
6
There were grabbie stars who boasted of being grandmothers while still playing ingénue leads.
The Door Into Summer
7
He has had his eye out for a new ingénue for a long time.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
8
He was pretty much an ingénue in all of that.
The Guardian
9
I bristled; it gets tiresome being treated like an ingénue.
The distant hours
10
An ingénue taking over the show is usually the stuff of movies, not real life.
The Irish Times
11
While it made him deem her an ingénue, it also had him dismissing her threat potential.
Deadly little secrets
12
She was an ingénue and a media darling.
Just the Sexiest Man Alive
13
She was tired of being considered an ingénue.
Quin
14
Are you a real ingénue, or a kidder?
The Slim Princess
15
He shall also transmogrify from heady Beat ingénue to the Father of the Black Arts Movement.
Ebony
16
While Vin, on the other hand, was a pompous, melodramatic, diva, picking on the little ingénue who-
Hollow World
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