Child
Both words in one sentence
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The female version is usually split between The Ingenue, the Genki Girl, or other tropes which highlight an adult woman's child-like attributes rather than her grown-up persona.
Source: Man Child - On a cartoon planet, Fitz accidentally causes a young woman who, being The Ingenue on a planet of characters fit for a children's cartoon, suffers from Virginity Makes You Stupid, to write to the Delivery Stork and ask for them to be brought a child.
Source: Wild Child -
The Love Light was something of a departure for Pickford, being a drama instead of Pickford's usual romantic comedy fare, and being a film where she played a character close to her own age rather than her more usual child character or ingenue.Tropes: Batman Gambit: So...just what was Joseph's plan?
Source: Film / The Love Light
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Ingenue and Child. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/ingenue
Child & Ingenue. N.p., 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/ingenue>.
Ingenue or Child. 2016. Accessed August 08, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/child/ingenue.
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