as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
if the jury acquits him, he is guiltless in the eyes of the law
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Recent Examples of guiltless
And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!
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Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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
So hats (halos?) off to you, Mr. Woolverton, and may the binge-watching, pint-guzzling, relatively guiltless movie marathons commence.
—Susie Neilson, The Cut, 21 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guiltless
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Demonstrators argued that taxpayer money should not be used to harm or kill innocent people and rejected claims that the killing of Good was an act of self-defense.—
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Multiple innocent lives lost due to violence.—
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Stefanski certainly isn’t blameless.—
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Del Toro wants to emphasize the contrast between Frankenstein, corrupted by ambition, and his Creature, born blameless.—
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“Guiltless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guiltless. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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