innocent
Example Sentences
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"The charges do not stand. I am completely innocent," he said.
From Barron's
“This defendant could have easily killed a federal officer or innocent bystander,” First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times
He made his voice sound innocent and stunned.
From Literature
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
