guiltless

Example Sentences

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Even if we are not directly responsible for someone’s plummeting into destitution, are we guiltless if we refuse to erect adequate and durable safety nets?

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2022

Aside from her business arrangement, offering gifts to journalists is equally lax in guiltless rectitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2019

It’s not that Berlin’s most accomplished police sleuth is guiltless.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2017

Calipari at the time pronounced himself shocked and horrified — the N.C.A.A. held him guiltless — and immediately signed a $15 million dollar contract to coach the Nets, a vagabond franchise then in New Jersey.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2015

I heard him murmur, “I am guiltless of your father’s death.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein