as in innocent
free from guilt or blame
a blameless baby shouldn't have to suffer for his parents' mistakes
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Recent Examples of blameless
No party in the war was blameless, but Hezbollah distinguished itself by outright rejecting norms of war and diplomacy.
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
But Newcastle are not blameless.
—Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The Bensons appreciate his frustration with E-ZPass but do not see him as blameless.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
But Newcastle are not blameless.
—Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The Bensons appreciate his frustration with E-ZPass but do not see him as blameless.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blameless
Adjective
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Someone's mispronunciation, for example, might have more do with innocent ignorance as opposed to a mistake worth correcting.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The new location will allow Wiggam Law to support clients outside of downtown Atlanta and directly in Gwinnett County, offering legal services including audit defense, tax litigation, penalty abatement, innocent spouse relief and IRS collections representation.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!—
Alexei Navalny,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
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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
Adjective
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Newcastle’s faultless pressing halted Villa’s build-up in the first half and often forced Bizot to go long, where Schar and Dan Burn dominated the aerial duels, and the midfield were in position to win the second balls.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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That philosophy has translated into a menu that is smaller, more focused, and, in my personal opinion, faultless.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Each of them offers money and position but nothing much in the way of pleasure, excitement, intellectual stimulation, or the prospect of anything other than a life of loveless, socially irreproachable tedium possibly brightened by the occasional extramarital affair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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Beneath their air of irreproachable authority, Jung and Freud — both brilliantly played, the first with subtlety, the other with theatrical relish — wrestle with petty grievances and insecurities, while the former stubbornly rationalizes his affair with onetime patient Spielrein.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Blameless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blameless. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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