blameless

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Recent Examples of blameless In her view, Kimmel is blameless. Dan Doperalski, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025 And Jeremiah himself isn’t blameless. Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025 Stroud isn’t blameless in the Texans’ severe pass-protection issues dating to last year. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025 No party in the war was blameless, but Hezbollah distinguished itself by outright rejecting norms of war and diplomacy. 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
  • As with all investigations leading to arrest, the subjects of the investigation are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The new dating term 'Shrekking' sounds innocent.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And how many guiltless prisoners there are here!
    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
Adjective
  • European supporters were not faultless.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The film’s docufiction-like honesty is the most conspicuous here: to imagine that the Mother Teresa whom the world knows mostly as a faultless octogenarian might have as a younger woman had similar intense moments of extreme conflicting emotions is humanizing, and lovely.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 9 Oct. 2025.

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