Meaning of Ingenue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
2. Alternative spelling of ingenue.
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3. A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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])”

“America why callow ingenue bile?”

“Wow. The consensual molestation of an ingénue by means of surveillance and recording equipment. How would Foucault have⟳ read⟳ this?”

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