as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
a blameless baby shouldn't have to suffer for his parents' mistakes
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Recent Examples of blameless
Leaders should restore clear end-to-end accountability, align on-call and incident response with the teams that ship the code, and rebuild a blameless culture.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Schlittler wasn’t blameless in that, committing a throwing error on a pickoff play in the first inning.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2026
Mendoza certainly wasn’t blameless, and Wednesday night’s error-fest, in which all four Mets infielders put their own horrific spin on hitting for the cycle, was effectively the last straw.
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Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
That gets put on so many women in the justice system, to present a version of events and self that is completely blameless at every moment — and even that doesn’t work sometimes.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2026
The United States is not blameless here.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
The duo settled this week ahead of their courtroom showdown and issued a needle-thread media statement, which was a meaningless, blameless word salad with hedge sauce.
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James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
Yet while Vitello is not blameless in the Giants’ poor start, there aren’t many buttons Vitello can push when the team’s foundational players are collectively underperforming.
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Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
The Golden Knights were hardly blameless.
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ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Schlittler wasn’t blameless in that, committing a throwing error on a pickoff play in the first inning.
—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2026
Mendoza certainly wasn’t blameless, and Wednesday night’s error-fest, in which all four Mets infielders put their own horrific spin on hitting for the cycle, was effectively the last straw.
—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
That gets put on so many women in the justice system, to present a version of events and self that is completely blameless at every moment — and even that doesn’t work sometimes.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2026
The United States is not blameless here.
—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
The duo settled this week ahead of their courtroom showdown and issued a needle-thread media statement, which was a meaningless, blameless word salad with hedge sauce.
—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
Yet while Vitello is not blameless in the Giants’ poor start, there aren’t many buttons Vitello can push when the team’s foundational players are collectively underperforming.
—
Justice Delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
The Golden Knights were hardly blameless.
—
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blameless
Adjective
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All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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That law predates the much wider United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which took effect in 1994, giving ships the right of innocent passage through any country's territorial waters without paying a fee.
Adjective
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In any year, in any culture, there are no antagonists (save for Nazis) better suited as action cinema heavies; rooting against child trafficking lowlifes is moral, easy, and best of all, a completely guiltless pleasure.
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Chick lit was flippant and fizzy and fun, above all, as effervescent and guiltless as a vodka soda.
Adjective
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And there was no mucking about with changing audio output settings, as doing so switched the sound to the X7's speakers and the wireless connectivity was faultless.
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Yet the reporting was faultless, the points of view persuasive.
Adjective
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Rather than focus on a single irreproachable hero, Mendonça Filho dilates his lens to take in an expansive world.
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Classics from the diasporic Vietnamese repertoire are included, too, with irreproachable instructions.
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“Blameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blameless. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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