Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Free of blame or guilt; innocent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not meriting blame or censure; without fault; undeserving of reproof; innocent; guiltless: as, “the blameless Indians,”
- Synonyms Faultless, irreproachable, unimpeachable, unsullied, spotless, stainless, unblemished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by
of .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Free from
blame ; withoutfault ;innocent ;guiltless . - adjective Not meriting blame or
censure ; undeserving ofreproof .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free of guilt; not subject to blame
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Examples
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There were other siblings involved but they will remain blameless as they were just being nice.
One of these days… 2004
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The one action for which I cannot hold Administration officials blameless is their distortion of intelligence estimates when making the public case for going to war.
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There were other siblings involved but they will remain blameless as they [...]
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The one action for which I cannot hold Administration officials blameless is their distortion of intelligence estimates when making the public case for going to war.
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"How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?"
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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"How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?"
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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"How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?"
Cleopatra — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?"
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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"How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?"
Cleopatra — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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My position isn't that GRRM is 'blameless' - on the contrary I have said several times the PR/communication side of things could have been better-handled - but that the decisions taken each step of the way have generally been taken for the best of reasons.
Wertzone Classics: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin Adam Whitehead 2010
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