as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
a blameless baby shouldn't have to suffer for his parents' mistakes
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Adjective
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To insinuate yourself into someone’s life, the biggest manipulators act like the most innocent victims.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2025 -
Loew was made the mark in a kind of confidence game, Schulberg recalls, with Thalberg and Mayer putting on a show of activity at the failing Louis B. Mayer Productions that nonetheless impressed the Hollywood innocent.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!—
Alexei Navalny,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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Many fans found its generally joyous treatment of Miranda’s guiltless affair with Che, a nonbinary comedian, in the first season off-putting.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
21 June 2023
Adjective
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In the ring, his attention to detail and faultless technique enabled him to post a 49-5-1 record.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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With Andrew Resnick’s crisp musical arrangements and a faultless sound design by Peter Hylenski, Groff and his costars knock one song after another out of the park.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Beneath their air of irreproachable authority, Jung and Freud — both brilliantly played, the first with subtlety, the other with theatrical relish — wrestle with petty grievances and insecurities, while the former stubbornly rationalizes his affair with onetime patient Spielrein.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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White has previously talked about Belinda as the morally irreproachable character on the show—but this series has basically no ethical characters, so of course Belinda gets her payday.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Blameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blameless. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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