as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
you may not have started the ugly rumor, but you helped to spread it, so you're hardly inculpable
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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.
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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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Schlittler wasn’t blameless in that, committing a throwing error on a pickoff play in the first inning.
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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.
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“Inculpable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inculpable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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