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Definition of ingénue in English: ingénuenoun ˈãʒən(j)uː An innocent or unsophisticated young woman, especially in a play or film. Example sentencesExamples - A guy described me in a magazine as a young ingénue who's desperate for a record deal, and it was just so gross.
- She was smart and you could see it, even when she was playing the ingénue.
- It's more the ultimate rebellion of cutting ties with her past, her youth, her ingénue quality, her sudden fame.
- These are the old-time climbers that take out the ingénues, teach them to tie knots and pick up trash, and while they're at it, facilitate their protégés’ discovery of the namaste.
- Their downfall comes with an attempt to seduce a young ingénue and an older woman.
- We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
- Trying to portray herself as an ingénue, lost in the world of politics, came implausibly from the woman who had first fought a by-election as long ago as 1981, before her husband had mounted his first soap-box.
- I was never a cheerleader, never an ingénue, never the homecoming queen.
- But anarchy soon arrived in the form of a skinny ingénue insisting on a boy's bag.
- The ingénues have magnificent voices but, God, it would be magical if they had personalities to match.
- A sign of how skilful a manipulator of the media she has been is the idea which took hold that she was a helpless ingénue, caught up in a maelstrom out of her control and the victim of a politician with powerful media connections.
- The woman dressed like an Edwardian ingénue and talked like a mystic, but her accent was what you would hear from some lower-class British shopgirl.
- And so it remains today - still a refreshing alternative to the hollow pop songs of our time and the breasty ingénues who sing them.
- The founders were certainly no ingénues, being a mix of aspiring broadcasters and more seasoned radio veterans.
- I feel inside as though I am the ingénue student I was at 20, the cool girl living in New York when I was 28, the nest-building just-married of 32 and the new mother of 34.
- A young Rita Hayworth, then being carefully groomed by Columbia, gave the part of Nina much more than a simple ingénue reading.
- We do learn that Olive was wild and independent, refusing to live as a shy ingénue.
- Visit a museum, and examine the latest works by the hottest young ingénues.
- We are not dealing with people who are ingénues in the area.
Synonyms unworldly person, naive person
Origin French, feminine of ingénu 'ingenuous', from Latin ingenuus (see ingenuous). Definition of ingénue in US English: ingénuenoun An innocent or unsophisticated young woman, especially in a play or film. Example sentencesExamples - Trying to portray herself as an ingénue, lost in the world of politics, came implausibly from the woman who had first fought a by-election as long ago as 1981, before her husband had mounted his first soap-box.
- Visit a museum, and examine the latest works by the hottest young ingénues.
- We do learn that Olive was wild and independent, refusing to live as a shy ingénue.
- Their downfall comes with an attempt to seduce a young ingénue and an older woman.
- A sign of how skilful a manipulator of the media she has been is the idea which took hold that she was a helpless ingénue, caught up in a maelstrom out of her control and the victim of a politician with powerful media connections.
- We were constantly being wrong-footed, set up, walking into complex traps which they had laid for us, with the intention of making us look like terminally unhip, gullible ingénues.
- I feel inside as though I am the ingénue student I was at 20, the cool girl living in New York when I was 28, the nest-building just-married of 32 and the new mother of 34.
- She was smart and you could see it, even when she was playing the ingénue.
- We are not dealing with people who are ingénues in the area.
- These are the old-time climbers that take out the ingénues, teach them to tie knots and pick up trash, and while they're at it, facilitate their protégés’ discovery of the namaste.
- I was never a cheerleader, never an ingénue, never the homecoming queen.
- It's more the ultimate rebellion of cutting ties with her past, her youth, her ingénue quality, her sudden fame.
- A guy described me in a magazine as a young ingénue who's desperate for a record deal, and it was just so gross.
- A young Rita Hayworth, then being carefully groomed by Columbia, gave the part of Nina much more than a simple ingénue reading.
- But anarchy soon arrived in the form of a skinny ingénue insisting on a boy's bag.
- And so it remains today - still a refreshing alternative to the hollow pop songs of our time and the breasty ingénues who sing them.
- The woman dressed like an Edwardian ingénue and talked like a mystic, but her accent was what you would hear from some lower-class British shopgirl.
- The ingénues have magnificent voices but, God, it would be magical if they had personalities to match.
- The founders were certainly no ingénues, being a mix of aspiring broadcasters and more seasoned radio veterans.
Synonyms unworldly person, naive person
Origin French, feminine of ingénu ‘ingenuous’, from Latin ingenuus (see ingenuous). |