Noun

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 24 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball.}}

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.}}

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

* 'The Bible - King James Version: John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile !

Noun

(en noun)

An innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome girl or young woman.

A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.

(rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, , wholesome person.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Acheson, Political Ingenue

, authorlink=Harold L. Ickes , last=Ickes , first=Harold L. , magazine=The New Republic , page=17 , date=11 June 1951 , volume=124 , issue=24 , pageurl=http://www.unz.org/Pub/NewRepublic-1951jun11-00017 }}

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

* {{quote-magazine, title=What Makes Lord Byron Go? Strong Determinations-Public/Private-of Imperial Errancy

, first=Joshua David , last=Gonsalves , magazine=Studies in Romanticism , volume=41 , issue=1, Psychoanalytic , year=2002 , month=Spring , page=40fn , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25601543 }}

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]).

* {{quote-magazine, title=It's a Cue, the Name

, first=Kevin , last=McFadden , magazine=Poetry , page=417 , volume=188 , issue=5 , pageurl=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20607555 , month=September , year=2006 }}

America why callow ingenue bile?