innocent
Example Sentences
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“There is an anxiety amongst the congregation and just people in Tucson in general that something like this happened to somebody totally innocent.”
Pahlavi, who has lived in exile since his father was overthrown and replaced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, urged an outside "humanitarian intervention to prevent more innocent lives" being lost in Iran.
From Barron's
There is no innocent explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, the UK Foreign Office said.
From BBC
“He is completely innocent of these false allegations that have been alleged against him,” Schuster told reporters outside the courthouse after the hearing.
From Los Angeles Times
John Shaw, Magnus’s deputy, is a brute and a bully; Abel Walker, Magnus’s nephew, is a young innocent; Tom Hearn is a sailor who trained as a cleric and speaks the indigenous languages.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
