innocent
IPA: ˈɪnʌsʌnt
noun
- One who is innocent, especially a young child.
- (obsolete) A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
- A surname.
adjective
- Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
- Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
- Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.
- Naive; artless.
- (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
- (with of) Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
- Lawful; permitted.
- Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
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Examples of "innocent" in Sentences
- Maybe I believe in what you called the innocent until proven guilty bit.
- The Homeland Security secretary said most of those incursions are what he called innocent, and he declared reporting on the issue has been overblown and not helpful.
- The phrase "innocent bystander" is ironic; in reality, bystanders are as guilty as perpetrators when it comes to perpetuating the patterns of violence in this country.
- Many innocent acts _occasion_ evil, and in such case all I am bound to ask myself before doing such _innocent act_, is, "Shall I occasion, on the whole, more harm or good."
- Sure, some innocent, and I use the term innocent loosely because it would be hard for a priest to be innocent in that environment of poverty, occassionly get shot unintensionly.
- This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears _a good deal less innocent_ when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to _destroy life_.
- Some have maintained that we should conform to the ways of the world somewhat — at least, enough to show that we can enjoy the world and religion too; and that we make religion appear repulsive to unconverted souls by turning our backs upon what they call their innocent amusements.
- This twisted notion that we would only observe our own laws, our own Constitution, our own Enlightenment Age ideals-if there was something in it for us, if we could somehow profit by it - appalls me. brought to mind something in a talk given by Sabine Willet (one of the attys for the Uighur and a commerical bankruptucy lawyer who felt compelled by the injustice to do something - while DOJ litigators felt compelled to lie to courts and continue to block habeas requests for men who their own files showed were innocent and had been abused and tortured bc of governmental policy that * no one leaves GITMO innocent*)
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