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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
Purser’s Anne isn’t the demure ingenue of more traditional productions, even though McDonald’s Edouard Dindon has no problem playing the farcical parental heavy.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
It’s been one of the difficult things as a young woman in Hollywood that was often [being] put in the ingenue category.
—Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024
Take Jean Simmons — the original one — who’d burst onto the scene as an ingenue in the postwar era, starring in classics like Guys and Dolls and Spartacus.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
In swinging 1960s London, when films featured fresh mini-skirted ingenues such as Julie Christie and Redgrave, Smith stood apart.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
It’s been one of the difficult things as a young woman in Hollywood that was often [being] put in the ingenue category.
—Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024
Take Jean Simmons — the original one — who’d burst onto the scene as an ingenue in the postwar era, starring in classics like Guys and Dolls and Spartacus.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
In swinging 1960s London, when films featured fresh mini-skirted ingenues such as Julie Christie and Redgrave, Smith stood apart.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenue
Noun
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Only Hackman could shift like that, from raconteur to angel of death.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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The weirdest stuff in the movie belongs to Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard’s roles as Christmas angels who narrate the story and get into some hi-jinks on the side.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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According to human rights organizations, most were denied due process, innocents including children were detained, and hundreds were tortured in jail and died.—
Tracy Wilkinson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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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
Noun
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An olive oil that does not have defects and a free acidity level of less than 0.8 is considered extra virgin.—
Patty Weasler, RN, BSN,
Verywell Health,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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The 57-year-old Chicago resident, founder of the People's Union USA, the fledgling advocacy group leading the campaign, expresses surprise at suddenly finding himself and his movement in the spotlight.—
Anne Marie Lee,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
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More than a few automakers have gone bust trying to make the best luxury car in the world, but almost as often the industry has seen fledgling manufacturers finally grow up, like when Toyota launched Lexus or when BMW introduced the 7 Series.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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 12 Mar. 2025.
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