guiltlessness

Example Sentences

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In a certain sense, wealthy people could live with a justifiable guiltlessness in “Mad Men” New York.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2012

Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant.

From Time Magazine Archive

In my sense of guiltlessness I would perhaps have raised no objection, but his mother immediately interposed, with quick intuition guessing at the object of my journey and by a clever pretence thwarted his plan.

From The Bride of Dreams by Auw, Mellie von

The tender solicitude of her mother, her childlike grief, and her firm belief in the real guiltlessness of her daughter, touched even the custodians of the Tombs who are enured to scenes of pathos.

From The Gilded Age, Part 6. by Warner, Charles Dudley

Kitty, though, was counting too much on her own guiltlessness, and the certainty of others believing in it; and she had more cause than she imagined for waking with a weight on her mind.

From Kitty Trenire by Quiller-Couch, Mabel