Ingenue

//ˈɑnʒənu//

Synonyms for "ingenue" (92 found)

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Translations

4 translations across 3 languages.

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Hungarian

2 entries
  • naiva noun (a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role)
  • szende noun (a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role)

Japanese

1 entries
  • アンジェーヌ noun (a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role)

Russian

1 entries
  • инженю́ noun (a dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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She was seen as a gifted pop-country ingenue when, in a now infamous moment, Kanye West interrupted Swift onstage at the 2009 VMAs while she was accepting an award. The incident set in motion a chain of events that would shape the next decade of both artists’ lives.

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The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli.

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Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them.

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I cannot resist citing, slightly out of context, another bit of Baudelaire: "Satan s'est fait ingénu" (Satan has made himself into an ingenue [Oeuvres Completes 640])

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